Mississippi Regulators Veto Any More Money for Southern Company’s Kemper Plant in Stunning Vote
In a historic vote this morning, Mississippi state regulators slammed the brakes on the Kemper coal power plant, saying they will refuse to ask utility customers to pay anything for Kemper’s non-functional multi-billion dollar “clean …
NY Attorney General: Phony CO2 Accounting, Extensive Document Destruction by ExxonMobil
Former ExxonMobil CEO and now-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson personally approved a scheme for accounting for the financial impact of greenhouse gas emissions on the company’s business that deliberately misled investors, one that continued right …
Steve Milloy climate denier’s ExxonMobil shareholder proposal goes down in flames
Steve Milloy’s decades long war on climate change science and policy continued today at the ExxonMobil Annual General Meeting for shareholders. There Milloy forwarded shareholder proposal on “Nuisance Shareholders” with an attack on environmentalists, shareholder activists …
Bombshell Votes at Southern Company Annual Meeting for Cleaner Energy, Against CEO Fanning
Southern Company shareholders cast a substantial vote of no confidence in chief executive officer Tom Fanning at the annual shareholders’ meeting near Atlanta May 24th, while almost half the company’s shares were cast in favor …
Manufacturers’ Group Attempts 11th Hour Escape from Kids’ Climate Lawsuit
In a last-minute legal maneuver, the National Association of Manufacturers is trying to extricate itself from a closely-watched federal climate lawsuit 18 months after it won a legal battle allowing it to intervene in the …
Who is Paying For Heartland Institute Climate Denial-Palooza?
This week the Heartland Institute will be gathering their small island of misfit toys in Washington, DC for another of their tedious climate Denial-Palooza events. We have followed these events going back to 2008. Heartland …
Climate Lawsuit Demands Rex Tillerson’s “Wayne Tracker” Emails
Petroleum industry knowledge of global warming in the Arctic, where ExxonMobil, shown here working on a massive drilling platform with Russian oil giant Rosneft near Sakhalin island, has long been a pioneer in oil exploration, …
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 …