As Time Runs Out for Southern Company, a Brain Drain Begins at Kemper
With builder Southern Company still promising that the Kemper power plant will go online soon, a group of key engineers and managers who work on the plant’s so-far-inoperable gasifier has left the company.
Trump Administration Pressing for Appeal, Dismissal of Climate Lawsuit
The Trump administration is asking an Oregon federal judge in the Our Children’s Trust case to let a higher court review her decision to permit a historic climate change lawsuit to proceed, and to halt …
Southern Company Says Kemper Not Viable as Coal Plant, Blames the PSC
In an apparent first salvo in a public relations campaign to shift blame for the Kemper power plant boondoggle away from himself and corporate management and onto state regulators, Southern Company chief executive officer Tom …
Rick Perry Faces Tepid Questioning in Energy Secretary Confirmation Hearing
A conciliatory Rick Perry cruised through a half-day Senate confirmation hearing today for secretary of the Department of Energy before a Senate committee in a performance that was long on warm words and vague promises …
Southern Company’s Kemper Coal Plant Could Get Billions in Tax Credit Bail-Out
If Donald Trump really wants to get rid of federal corporate welfare, he should be frantically tweeting against a congressional plan that could send billions to the grossly mismanaged Kemper power plant by expanding tax …
Fanning and Moniz on Kemper: Nothing to See Here
It would be hard to find an image of a cozier relationship between a giant energy company and a regulator than the joint appearance in Philadelphia on July 28th by Southern Company’s Tom Fanning and U.S. …
Kemper Project’s Untested Equipment Means Southern Company Way Off On Schedule
Engineers who worked on Southern Company’s Kemper coal plant say the proposed start-up date of September 2016 is as unrealistic as previous dates given by the company and that the plant is unlikely to go …
Southern Company’s ‘Big Bet’ on Kemper: A Rigged Game?
From the very beginning, the story of utility giant Southern Company’s Kemper clean coal plant is a long trail of broken promises.
Lawsuit Against ExxonMobil Ties Climate Policy to Local Oil Hazard
A Massachusetts conservation group says it will sue ExxonMobil for failing to protect the Boston harbor area from an old, leaky oil terminal that spews toxic material into nearby rivers, charging that the company’s dual …
Exxon Mimics Big Tobacco’s First Amendment Plea
ExxonMobil’s claim last week in a Texas court that the First Amendment bars an attorney general’s investigation into its history of climate denial is probably a loser. Big Tobacco tried to use the First Amendment …