The Real Cost of Coal Exports and Fossil Fuels
With major fossil fuel projects ramping up across the globe, fossil fuel interests are ignoring the catastrophic costs that carbon pollution causes (and will cause) around the world. Meanwhile, critics...
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Peabody’s Energy Poverty Campaign Versus Reality at Powering Africa Summit
African energy ministers, utility companies, and private sector investors all gathered in Washington D.C. recently for the Powering Africa Summit at the St. Regis Hotel. The summit is designed to...
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Pope Francis’ Encyclical: Clean Energy and The Moral Case for Climate Solutions
Pope Francis officially released his encyclical, “Laudato Si (“Be Praised”), On the Care of Our Common Home”, on June 18, 2015, calling on “every person living on this planet” to urgently address...
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Attacks on Clean Power Plan Based on Flawed Reports
Critics of President Barack Obama’s landmark regulation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions almost always highlight a series of flawed studies (which are often paid for by utility or fossil fuel...
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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...
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Does 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...
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Jay 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...
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Peabody 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...
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Arizona’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),...
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Trump’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...
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Trump 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...
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Peabody 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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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...
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Does 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...
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Jay 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...
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Peabody 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...
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Arizona’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),...
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Trump’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...
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