Peabody Energy Funding Climate Change Denial and Anti-Renewable Campaigns
Peabody Energy filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April 2016. Over the past few weeks, analysis of Peabody Energy’s bankruptcy documents has revealed that the world’s largest private-sector...
View ArticleDoes Dominion support using Thomas Jefferson’s name to spread climate denial?
The Energy and Policy Institute recently learned, thanks to Seth Heald at the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter, that vice president and deputy general counsel for Dominion, David Shuford, has in his spare...
View ArticleJay Clayton, the SEC, and climate change disclosure
What does Donald Trump’s plan to nominate Jay Clayton as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) mean for the future of corporate climate change disclosure? The election of Donald...
View ArticlePeabody Uses Flawed Study to Push For Navajo Generating Station Lifeboat
In December 2016, Arizona Corporation Commissioner Andy Tobin asked Arizona Public Service (APS) why it was planning to invest so much money in new natural gas power plants. APS’ latest Integrated...
View ArticleArizona’s Andy Tobin Asks for Subsidy to Keep Coal Plant Running
Last week, Arizona Corporation Commissioner Andy Tobin proposed a Settlement Agreement to keep one of the oldest, most polluting coal plants in the Western U.S., Navajo Generating Station (NGS),...
View ArticleTrump’s FBI nominee Christopher Wray weighed in on the ExxonMobil climate...
Christopher Wray, President Trump’s nominee for FBI director, advised corporate clients on how to avoid “being in the crosshairs” of law enforcement at a 2015 legal forum where investigations by state...
View ArticleTrump misfires on windmills, coal in upstate New York
President Trump attacked subsidies for “windmills” this week while in upstate New York, but didn’t mention his multi-billion dollar plan to bail out the coal industry, which has backed some of the...
View ArticleUtilities don’t want Peabody Energy’s “clean coal” awards anymore
In the latest sign of the U.S. coal industry’s declining ability to compete in the power sector, Peabody Energy is now struggling to find electric utility companies who are willing to accept a “clean...
View ArticleEnergy companies in U.S. Chamber silent as Chamber opposed use of Defense...
Major electric utilities and fossil fuel producers that are members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce remained silent when asked whether they supported the lobbying group’s controversial opposition to...
View ArticlePeabody pushes coal carbon capture through front groups, industry...
A coal industry front group funded by Peabody Energy and the state of Wyoming successfully urged the Department of Energy to fund a study proposing a carbon capture project at the Comanche coal plant...
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