Utilities Use Dark Money To Stop Climate Progress

[usonian]

https://climatebase.org/blog/utilities-use-dark-money-to-stop-climate-progress
The article references a study by The Guardian and has an "influence map" (linked below)


In today's issue of "This Week in Climate", we look at how utilities push back on climate action.
Julian Moore
Jun 20, 2023

For years, the debate over what role power utilities should play in the energy transition was mostly relegated to the wonkier backwaters of energy policy.

But that was before evidence came to light showing how power companies have been using ratepayer money to lobby against there being any energy transition at all.

A report published in the Guardian last week found that American power utilities have spent more than $215 million on political lobbying through dark money groups, including to block laws promoting renewable energy.

This isn’t the first time that investor-owned utilities have been shown to influence climate policy, as InfluenceMap showed last year, but it's the first to put such a high figure on these efforts.

More at the link.

[Deuxcents]

1. Shocking.

They spend lots of money on ads reassuring us they are investing in the future. Our future rate hikes, most likely.

[Skittles]

2. so disappointed in Wisconisn

it's like they turned into Texas

[Think. Again.]

4. and that's just the utility companies....

Try to imagine what the fossil fuel industry is doing, and then realize it's worse than you can imagine.

[usonian]

5. You got it right.

Put in perspective, the fossil fuel industry is gigantic.

Quite obviously, more powerful than governments, and destroying the planet.