Arizona Public Service aps

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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Want to quit APS? Legislators are backing a plan to make sure that can never happen</b></font></font></font></font></div><div><b>
</b></div><div>Opinion: Arizona's monopoly utilities don't want you ever to have a choice in where you get your electricity. And the Arizona Legislature is working on a plan to make sure they get their wish.</div><div>Laurie Roberts</div><div>Arizona Republic</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Arizona Legislature is charging forth with a plan to block competition against utilities like Arizona Public Service.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In August, a Texas company applied to the Arizona Corporation Commission for permission to compete with Arizona Public Service and Tucson Electric Power, giving us captive customers a choice in who provides our electricity.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The state’s monopoly utilities were not amused.</span></div><div>
</div><div>And so, as night follows day, the Arizona Legislature is now charging forth with a plan to block the competition.</div><div>
</div><div>This, by repealing a state law that allows other electricity providers to give the big guys a run for their money.</div><div>
</div><div>It is a necessary step, the monopoly utilities assure us, to ensure that service remains reliable and affordable.</div><div>
</div><div>Funny, I’m pretty sure Ma Bell said the same thing a half century ago. Back when phones were bolted to walls and had these strange curly wires attached to them, when you talked fast when calling long distance because of the resulting exodus from your wallet.</div><div>
</div><div>Law says we 'shall' have competition</div><div><b>For two decades, Arizona has had laws in place to allow for competition in who provides the electricity that powers our homes and businesses. In fact, the law flatly says, “a competitive market shall exist.”</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It just never materialized, thanks to a court decision challenging the rules to implement that law and a powerful utility lobby that would just as soon not have anyone intrude on its turf, thankyouverymuch.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>There was an attempt by the Arizona Corporation Commission to revisit deregulation in 2013 but it was abruptly shelved when APS frowned.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fast forward to August, when <b>Texas-based Green Mountain Energy</b> applied to the commission to begin selling what they say will be 100% renewable energy plans to APS and Tucson Electric customers</span>. The company already operates in seven states, with licenses in four others,  and estimates it’ll have 20,000 Arizona customers within five years.</div><div>
</div><div>“Approval of this application is in the public interest,” the company wrote in its application, “because it will result in more options for customers and expand the availability of renewable energy in Arizona.”</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>I picture the executives over at APS's parent company, Pinnacle West Capital Corp</b>., fainting in a dead heap right there on their marble boardroom floor.</div><div>
</div><div>Bill could end competition as we know it</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Enter House Bill 2101, which has the bipartisan support of a whopping 36 legislators. It was defeated a few weeks ago on the House floor but after a little muscle was applied, was brought back this week and passed 37-21. </span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>The bill (and its companion, Senate Bill 1631) </b>would not only block Green Mountain from operating in Arizona but would threaten the rooftop solar industry as well.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">That’s because the law our leaders seek to repeal – the one mandating competitive markets – was recently cited by Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals when it ruled that Salt River Project risks antitrust trouble if it<b> jacks up rates to price competing services (read: rooftop solar) out of the market.</b></span></div><div>
</div><div>Take away the law and well, you get the picture.</div><div>
</div><div>Utilities and their champions at the Legislature insist their monopoly status protects consumers, keeps rates low and electricity flowing.</div><div>
</div><div><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Reliability and affordability</span> is really at the top of my concern,” House Natural Resources, Energy and Water Committee Chairwoman Gail Griffin, the sponsor of this drive to end competition before it can begin, </b>said during a recent hearing on her bill.</div><div>
</div><div>Without repeal, utilities warn us we may be subject to the woes of California when it had rolling blackouts two decades ago or the misery of Texas, where millions lost power during a deadly freeze last February and prices went soaring.</div><div>
</div><div>It's never bad to let APS know we have choice</div><div>But, as The Arizona Republic’s Robert Robb pointed out,<b> California’s competitive setup contained flaws that don’t exist in Arizona and Arizona law requires the Corporation Commission to set rates within a range, preventing a Texas-style price spike.</b></div><div>
</div><div>During the recent hearing on the bill, a spokesman for Green Mountain brushed aside the utilities’ dire warnings of doom and gloom, saying its prices would be competitive and its customers still would have to pay for upkeep of the grid as well as a fee to the “native utility” to serve as a backup provider.</div><div>
</div><div>“Reliability is being used in this bill as a fig leaf by people who simply want to close off choice to their customers and retain a monopoly,” said Travis Kavulla, vice president of Regulatory Affair of<b> NRG Energy Inc., the parent company of Green Mountain.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Count Corporation Commissioner and free-market fan Justin Olson among those who support competition. He says his study of price data from the Energy Information Administration suggests it would drive down rates.</div><div>
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</div><div>Data is mixed on that but one thing seems clear.</div><div>
</div><div>It is never a bad thing for APS and other utilities to know that we have a choice.</div><div>
</div><div>The fact that the Legislature doesn’t see that is stunning. </div><div>
</div><div>Somebody should pull the plug on this bad plan.</div><div>
</div><div>Who supports this bill?</div><div><b>Here are the legislators who voted for to HB 2101: [FINCHEM LATER?]</b></div><div>
</div><div><b>Republican</b> Reps. Gail Griffin of Hereford, Rusty Bowers of Mesa, Brenda Barton of Payson, Leo Biasiucci of  Lake Havasu City, Walter Blackman of Snowflake. Frank Carroll of Sun City West, Regina Cobb of Kingman, David Cook of Globe, Lupe Diaz of Benson, Tim Dunn of Yuma, John Fillmore of Apache Junction, Joel John of Yuma, Steve Kaiser of Phoenix, John Kavanagh of Fountain Hills, Teresa Martinez of Casa Grande, Quang Nguyen of Prescott, Joanne Osborne of Goodyear, Jennifer Pawlik of Chandler, Kevin Payne of Peoria, Ben Toma of Peoria, Michelle Udall of Mesa, Jeff Weninger of Chandler Justin Wilmeth of Phoenix.</div><div>
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</div><div><b>Democratic Reps</b>. Morgan Abraham of Tucson, Richard Andrade of Phoenix, Jasmine Blackwater-Nygun of Red Mesa, César Chávez of Phoenix, Andrea Dalessandro of Sahuarita, Diego Espinoza of Tolleson, Brian Fernandez of Yuma, Alma Hernandez of Tucson, Daniel Hernandez of Tucson, Chris Mathis of Tucson, Robert Meza of Phoenix, Marcelino Quiñonez of Phoenix, Lorenzo Sierra of Avondale, Myron Tsosie of Chinle</div><div>
</div><div>Reach Roberts at laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LaurieRoberts.</div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> =</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By Carolyn Kormann</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">October 24, 2018</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Despite the rapid decline in the cost of solar-energy technology and battery storage, Arizona gets only six per cent of its electricity from solar.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In late September, the <b>Heartland Institute,</b> a libertarian think tank that receives donations from fossil-fuel companies, published a blog post titled “California Billionaire’s Renewable Energy Initiative Makes Arizona Ballot.” The billionaire in question was Tom Steyer, whose year-long effort to pass Proposition 127, an amendment to Arizona’s constitution that would require power companies to<b> generate fifty per cent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2030,</b></span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> has faced aggressive opposition from the state’s largest utility, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Arizona Public Service, or A.P.S. </span></b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The blog post lamented a failed lawsuit filed by Arizonans for Affordable Energy, a political-action committee funded by A.P.S.’s parent company, to keep Prop 127 off the ballot, </b>and quoted several opponents who believed the measure, now up for a vote in November, would be a costly mistake. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">“Prop 127 would tie Arizona’s future to technologies that do not deliver baseload electricity,”<b> Mark Finchem, a Republican</b> state representative, said, “and are arguably worse for the environment as a whole than the dependable technologies we already have.” The photograph accompanying the post depicted a wind-turbine farm, and, in the foreground, a dead bald eagle.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Arizona is the sunniest state in the country, with more than three hundred bluebird days per year. It is also projected to endure an additional month of hundred-degree days in the coming decades owing to climate change</b>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Yet, despite the rapid decline in the cost of solar-energy technology and battery storage—to the point that, as an A.P.S. director told me, it now frequently outbids fossil fuels, even natural gas—in 2017, Arizona generated only six per cent of its electricity from solar,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> according to the ballot initiative’s advocates. <b>The state currently requires utilities to generate eight per cent of their power from sources like solar and wind, scaling up to fifteen per cent by 2025.</b> Natural gas, the largest source of Arizona’s net electricity generation, is imported from out of state. “Our most abundant resource in Arizona is our sunshine,” D. J. Quinlan, a spokesman for Clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona, the Phoenix-based political-action committee that Steyer is funding, said. “We need a nationwide transition to renewables. One of the first places we should be doing it is where it’s most efficient and cost-effective, and that’s here.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Carolyn Kormann is a staff writer at The New Yorker.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">alex k</font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Republican Attorneys General faced 2018 re-election bids and continued their legal challenges to Obama-era environmental regulations, fossil fuel companies poured millions of dollars into the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), a political nonprofit that spends money to elect GOP AGs. That trend has continued into this year. From 2017 through mid-2019, oil, gas, and coal companies, trade associations, fossil fuel utilities, and industry executives donated over $6.7 million to RAGA, a CMD investigation has found. Fifty-five companies and trade groups and four executives made these donations.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Giving the most money to RAGA since 2017 are oil and natural gas exploration company Noble Energy ($1,020,000), oil refining and materials conglomerate Koch Industries ($755,000), natural gas energy supplier NextEra Energy Resources ($500,855), and oil and gas drillers Anadarko Petroleum ($500,000) and PDC Energy ($350,000).</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">RAGA's <a href="https://republicanags.com/2019/08/01/republican-attorneys-general-association-brings-in-groundbreaking-9-6-million-fundraising-haul-for-first-half-of-2019/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">$9.6 million</a> haul in the first half of 2019 dwarfs that of 2015, the last similar fundraising period. That amount includes contributions to RAGA’s related entities such as the Rule of Law Defense Fund, a 501(c)(4) dark-money group founded in 2014 and <a href="https://maplight.org/story/conservative-group-led-by-epa-chief-pruitt-received-dark-money-to-battle-environmental-regulations/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">funded</a> by Koch-linked political groups, the Edison Electric Institute, the Judicial Crisis Network, and the Federalist Society in past years.</font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to helping elect Republican candidates, the corporations' donations to RAGA score them personal meetings with GOP attorneys general. At four private events each year at luxury hotels, industry lobbyists, lawyers, and executives get exclusive access to the attorneys general, and the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">AGs have been happy to <a href="https://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/09/13136/RAGA-Clean-Power-Plan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">oblige the corporations’ wishes</a>. Numerous GOP AGs have launched lawsuits attacking Obama-era environmental regulations such as the Clean Power Plan, the Clean Air Act, the Waters of the United States rule (WOTUS), and ozone caps.</span></font></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other <a href="https://documented.net/2019/04/republican-attorneys-general-group-hosting-oil-and-gas-summit/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">perks</a> for annual RAGA donors include access to additional RAGA events, policy conference calls, monthly political briefings, passes to the annual Edmund Randolph Club retreats, and the option to pitch topics and be panelists at conferences. One RAGA event this year, in April, was an <a href="https://documented.net/2019/04/republican-attorneys-general-group-hosting-oil-and-gas-summit/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">oil and gas summit</a> to Houston.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In some cases, oil and gas corporations extend their communications with attorneys general beyond RAGA events. For example, former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt had secret meetings with industry lobbyists and challenged EPA regulations by sending letters to the agency that appeared to be written by Pruitt’s office but were actually <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energy-firms-in-secretive-alliance-with-attorneys-general.html?r=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">authored by lobbyists for oil and gas exploration company Devon Energy</a>. Pruitt filed 14 legal challenges to environmental regulations during his tenure as Oklahoma AG.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CMD sued Pruitt for access to <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/pruitt-emails-key-findings/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">thousands of emails</a> between Pruitt's office and energy interests </span>and <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/02/07/lawsuit-filed-against-trump-nominee-pruitt-polluter-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">sued to stop the emails' destruction</a>. The correspondence records led to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/22/oklahoma-attorney-generals-office-releases-7500-pages-of-emails-between-scott-pruitt-and-fossil-fuel-industry/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">national coverage</a> of Pruitt's close relationships with Devon Energy, the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers trade association, the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity, and other industry interests.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pruitt became Trump's director of the EPA in 2017, but his fellow Republican AGs continue to fight Obama's environmental regulations in the courts, buoyed by election support from RAGA.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In early 2017, as Democratic AGs began to sue the Trump administration, RAGA ramped up its electoral operation, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-republican-ags-exclusive-idUSKBN16Z1A5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">ending a longstanding agreement</a> with its Democratic counterpart to refrain from targeting the other party's incumbent AGs.</font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arizona</font></h2><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the 2018 Arizona elections, Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich faced a Democratic challenger, and voters weighed in on a ballot measure to require utility companies to generate 50 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2030. Brnovich ran against the measure and was buoyed by </font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Pinnacle West Capital--the holding company that owns Arizona Public Service,</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> the state's largest public utility--which gave $200,000 to RAGA in the 2018 election cycle. Pinnacle West PAC also donated $7,000 to the Brnovich campaign, and CEO Don Brandt gave $2,500.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RAGA put nearly $3.7 million into Arizona state elections in the 2018 cycle, giving $2.9 million to Arizona for Freedom PAC, which spent most of that on ads, and over $750,000 to the RAGA Arizona PAC, which transferred the money to the state Republican Party.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic challenger January Contreras had backing from the Democratic Attorneys General Association and the Tom Steyer-linked outside group Clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona, which spent several million dollars supporting her, but she lost a close race to Brnovich.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Far more expensive was the ballot measure campaign, the <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/10/16/arizona-clean-energy-ballot-measure-proposition-127-most-expensive-state-history/1660198002/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">most costly</a> in Arizona's history</b>. Pinnacle West poured $32.3 million into political group Arizonans for Affordable Electricity, which campaigned against the measure, and Clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona, financed mostly by Steyer's NextGen Climate Action, spent $24 million in favor. The measure lost by a big margin.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2015, Brnovich and Arizona Public Service <a href="https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-officially-sues-epa-over-clean-power-plan-7772833" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">joined</a> the multi-state lawsuit against Obama's Clean Power Plan. After Trump was elected, in late 2016, Brnovich joined 23 other states in a letter urging the new president-elect to withdraw the Clean Power Plan.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Also in 2015, Brnovich <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/258343-five-states-sue-over-ozone-rule" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">led a coalition</a> in suing the EPA over restrictions on ozone, which coal company Murray Energy had also legally challenged.</font></font></font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Colorado</font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Colorado's outgoing Republican Attorney General Cynthia Coffman had joined other states in challenging the Clean Power Plan, and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">2018 GOP candidate George Brauchler also opposed the greenhouse gas restrictions and pledged not to challenge the Trump administration's actions. Brauchler favored the White House's "Affordable Clean Energy Rule" to replace the Clean Power Plan, while Democratic candidate Phil Weiser supported the restrictions and called attention to Brauchler's "<a href="https://gazette.com/news/energy-environment-are-crux-of-colorado-attorney-general-battle-between/article_f4822fd6-b1fa-11e8-a214-1781c1cddec7.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">pro-industry approach to energy extraction</a>."</span></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RAGA spent <a href="https://coloradosun.com/2018/12/10/campaign-finance-2018-colorado-super-pac/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">over $5.1 million</a> backing Brauchler through Colorado Freedom, a RAGA state affiliate set up by RAGA's chief financial officer, Lee Russell. Weiser, who won the race, <a href="https://gazette.com/news/energy-environment-are-crux-of-colorado-attorney-general-battle-between/article_f4822fd6-b1fa-11e8-a214-1781c1cddec7.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">criticized</a> Colorado Freedom for being a "dark money" group funded, via RAGA, by "mostly out-of-state corporations" including Koch Industries.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some of the same fossil fuel companies that financed RAGA including Anadarko Petroleum, Extraction Oil and Gas, Noble Energy, and PDC Energy also <a href="https://www.westword.com/news/oil-and-gas-money-fueling-the-campaigns-for-colorados-amendment-74-against-prop-112-10954929" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">gave millions</a> of dollars to another outside group, Protect Colorado, which spent a massive $40 million advocating the oil and gas industry's interests around two ballot measures.</font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michigan</font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 2018 AG race in Michigan was another open contest between candidates with a stark contrast on energy policy. <b>Republican candidate Tom Leonard </b>ran with explicit support for an aging Enbridge oil pipeline, while Democrat Dana Nessel pledged to shut it down in her first act as attorney general.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Enbridge did not donate to RAGA in the 2018 cycle, but ExxonMobil, with which it co-owns multiple pipelines, gave over $125,000. This year, Enbridge contributed $25,000 to RAGA.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RAGA spent at least <a href="https://republicanags.com/2018/08/29/raga-announces-4-million-tv-buy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">$1.5 million</a> backing Leonard and gave $6,800 to the Leonard campaign, but Nessel won the race. Under Nessel, Michigan has joined other Democratic states to challenge Trump initiatives including its <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/ag/0,4534,7-359-92297_47203-504608--,00.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">Clean Power Plan replacement</a>. She also <a href="https://www.michiganradio.org/post/michigan-withdraws-lawsuits-over-federal-environmental-rules" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">withdrew</a> the state from the Republican challenge to the Clean Power Plan and from a Murray Energy lawsuit against EPA clean air regulations, which the state had joined as a petitioner.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the next AG race, in 2022, RAGA will very likely harness cash from its fossil fuel donors in an attempt to reinstate a pro-industry Republican.</font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Texas</font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the Longhorn State, Attorney General Ken Paxton, RAGA's chair in 2019, ran for re-election against Democrat Justin Nelson in 2018. Like other Republican AGs seeking new terms, Paxton got major support from RAGA, which made $650,000 in direct donations to his campaign as well as $21,500 in in-kind contributions for research. Paxton won the race by 3.6 percent of the vote.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paxton's RAGA <a href="https://republicanags.com/ags/ken-paxton/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">biography</a> boasts that he has sued the Obama administration 22 times. The suits include challenges to the Clean Power Plan, the EPA's "Regional Haze" rule, methane emission standards, and restrictions on coal mining near waterways.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This year, Paxton sued ExxonMobil over a fire at its chemical plant that injured 37 people, the fourth fire that has occured at the Bayton, Texas plant this year. But his lawsuit, filed at the state level, could upend two suits by the county in county court, putting Paxton in charge of the whole operation. Some, wary of his fossil fuel-friendly history, worry he <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/texas/blog/2019/09/ken-paxton-environmental-champion" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">might go easy on the oil giant</a>.</font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2019 Races</font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2019, Republicans flipped two state AG offices and held onto another. In Kentucky, RAGA made its biggest ad pre-booking expenditure ever: <a href="https://republicanags.com/2019/08/29/raga-announces-3-25-million-kentucky-ad-buy-supporting-daniel-cameron/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">$3.25 million</a> benefiting GOP candidate Daniel Cameron, who would go on to win the race. Coal is a major industry in the state, but the election centered more on health care and the opioid crisis.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In Mississippi, successful AG candidate Lynn Fitch</b> got a $150,000 in direct campaign donations as well as more than $76,000 worth of in-kind contributions from RAGA’s Mississippi PAC, according to state campaign finance data.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In Louisiana, Republican Jeff Landry won re-election.</b> In January, Landry <a href="https://thehayride.com/2019/01/landry-war-between-federal-agency-overreach-self-governance-still-rages/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">railed against EPA regulations</a> in an op-ed, criticizing the Clean Power Plan and fuel efficiency increases and praising Trump for cutting numerous environmental standards. RAGA has elected Landry to be its 2020 chair.</font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2020 Races</font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://stateagelections.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">Ten states</a> have AG elections in 2020, including Utah, where Republican Sean Reyes will seek re-election. Under Reyes, Utah became the <a href="https://www.deseret.com/2018/12/11/20660906/ranchers-reveling-in-trump-s-proposed-rollback-of-water-regulations" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">first state</a> in a 10-state coalition to challenge Obama's Waters of the United States rule, which expanded the definition of protected waters under the 1972 Clean Water Act.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2017, along with a number of other GOP AGs including Landry and Paxton, Reyes signed <a href="http://ago.wv.gov/Documents/2017.06.19%20WOTUS%20Comments.PDF" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">a letter</a> to Pruitt's EPA urging it to "respect the states" regarding WOTUS.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The 2015 WOTUS Rule is a clear example for federal overreach that infringed on the States' traditional role as primary regulators of land and water resources within their borders," <a href="https://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/utah-ag-and-coalition-blocks-2015-wotus-rule/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">said</a> Reyes in August of this year, after a federal district court maintained an injunction against the WOTUS rule that Reyes and other GOP AGs sought. In October, the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers <a href="https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/epa-repeals-wotus-rule-35667/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">officially repealed the rule</a>, reinstating the less strict standards that were in place before the rule</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CMD <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/07/18/watchdog-group-sues-utah-ag-withholding-raga-documents/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">sued</a> Reyes for withholding public records about his involvement in RAGA and the Rule of Law Defense Fund, generating <a href="https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=5522658&itype=cmsid" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">local</a> and <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/watchdog-group-sues-utah-attorney-general-727c69a88c7f/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">national coverage</a> of RAGA's pay-to-play arrangement with corporations, including fossil fuel companies. The suit is still pending.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Nine other states--Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia--also have AG races in 2020. </b>In Indiana and Missouri, Republican incumbents are seeking re-election. Indiana AG Curtis Hill, like his fellow GOP AGs, has advanced energy industry interests, leading 15 states in two 2018 friend-of-the-court briefs <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/legalnewsline/2018/06/04/states-against-climate-change-lawsuits-ask-for-dismissal-of-nycs/#5a6e099997b8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">seeking dismissal</a> of <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/legalnewsline/2018/04/20/as-boulder-sues-15-states-including-colorado-oppose-global-warming-lawsuits/#4c11b9464518" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">California</a> and <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/legalnewsline/2018/06/04/states-against-climate-change-lawsuits-ask-for-dismissal-of-nycs/#69826fab97b8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">New York's</a> lawsuits against the industry over its effect on climate change. Coffman, Paxton, Reyes, and Landry were among the other signatories of the briefs.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Meanwhile, RAGA has supported the AGs’ efforts. In 2018, it <a href="https://republicanags.com/2018/08/22/raga-chair-and-arkansas-attorney-general-leslie-rutledge-talks-clean-energy-on-americas-newsroom/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">publicized</a> Arkansas AG Leslie Wheeler's appearance on a Fox News show during which she discussed her opposition to the Clean Power Plan. RAGA's Rule of Law Defense Fund hosted <a href="https://republicanags.com/2019/10/18/icymi-south-carolina-ag-alan-wilson-and-rule-of-law-defense-fund-host-policy-panel-on-climate-change-litigation-and-public-nuisance-lawsuits/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">a panel</a> in October 2019, featuring South Carolina AG Alan Wilson, about strategies to combat climate change legislation.</font></font></font></p></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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<b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Facing what it saw as a threat to its

monopoly from a surging rooftop solar industry, Arizona's largest

utility secretly funneled millions of dollars to back favored candidates

for the state commission regulating it.

                                                                        
                                                                        
                                              
                                                                        
                                                            
                        
                                                                        
                </span></b></font><p style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arizona Public Service Co.

recently acknowledged it gave money to groups that spent $3.2 million in

the 2014 Arizona Corporation Commission races. The disclosure in

filings with the commission came after the utility refused for the past

four years to confirm or deny its participation in the election despite

broad suspicion that it did.</font></span>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The spending raises

questions about whether a regulated monopoly such as APS should be

allowed to contribute money to political causes that could adversely

affect customers, and whether it should be permitted to keep such

spending secret.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"They are still taking

ratepayer money and using it against the ratepayers to jack up their

rates," said Tom Ryan, an attorney in metro Phoenix who has been a

critic of some commission members.</font>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The 2014 move by APS and its

owner, Pinnacle West Capital Corp.,</b> was a break from a decades-long

practice by the state's utilities of not meddling in political races

involving their regulators. The utility spent on elections again in 2016

and 2018 but publicly disclosed it.</font></span></p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">

                                                                        
                                                                        
                                              
                                                                        
                                                            
                        
                                                                        
                </span><p style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The shift led to years of negative press, along with an FBI investigation that continues to this day.</font></span></p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">

                                                                        
                                                                        
                                              
                                                                        
                                                            
                        
                                                                        
                </span><p style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pinnacle West and APS CEO

Don Brandt was involved in deflecting news reports as the company

funneled a combined $12.8 million to 15 political groups in 2014,

including the $3.2 million that was spent in commission races.</font></span>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The utility finally

disclosed the spending late last month after a Democrat who took office

in January joined with other commissioners to demand records</b>.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> also provided details of

$4.1 million in spending to influence its regulators' 2016 election and

nearly<b> $40 million to defeat a citizens' initiative last year that would

have required that it get much more of its power from solar and other

renewable sources. </b>APS previously acknowledged those contributions.</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"That was a policy issue

with direct impact on our customers and our business and on Arizona,"

Jenna Rowell, the utility's director of external relations, said of the

2018 spending. "So we got involved in that early, we were up front about

that. In addition to all of the required disclosures, we talked

frequently and openly about why we were getting involved against that

effort."</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brandt was getting updates

from executives overseeing the company's political efforts in the 2014

and 2016 elections, according to documents provided to the commission.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Company officials haven't

made Brandt available for interviews. Rowell pointed to a 2014 letter

from the company's then-chief operating officer when asked why it dumped

its long-held policy of not engaging in political races for its

regulators.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"As you undoubtedly are

aware, the political landscape is changing," now-retired COO Mark

Schiavoni wrote to two commission candidates who inquired about the

utility's 2014 political spending. "Because of the tactics a number of

organizations are employing to misrepresent important regulatory issues,

we may need to respond in the future to set the record straight on

issues of importance to Arizona, our customers and our company."</font>

<b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One group that received

funding from the utility also spent $704,000 in the 2014 secretary of

state's race, including giving $437,000 to support Republican candidate

Justin Pierce, the son of then-outgoing Commissioner Gary Pierce.</font></b>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The FBI and U.S. Attorney's

Office launched an investigation tied to the spending, and Pinnacle West

was forced to confirm in its filings with the Securities and Exchange

Commission that it has received grand jury subpoenas for information

"pertaining to the 2014 statewide election races in Arizona for

Secretary of State and for positions on the ACC (Arizona Corporation

Commission)."</font></span>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The FBI confirmed to The

Associated Press that its investigation into political spending in

certain 2014 statewide races remains ongoing, though it declined to

provide details. The U.S. Attorney's Office declined to say whether a

grand jury was still examining the 2014 spending.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Neither APS nor the FBI has disclosed which possible violations of law are being investigated.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pinnacle West insists no

ratepayer money was spent on its political efforts, but former

Commissioner Bill Mundell said the claim was disingenuous, given that

the company gets nearly all its money from utility customers.</font>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 2014 effort came as APS

was faced with a growing rooftop solar industry and consumers' embrace

of solar panels that could cut their power use — and the utility's

profits. APS wanted commissioners to lower the amount it had to pay for

power rooftop solar customers sent back to its utility grid. The

commission ultimately did lower that payout for future solar

installations.</font></span></p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">

                                                                        
                                                                        
                                              
                                                                        
                                                            
                        
                                                                        
                </span><p style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vernon Parker, who lost his

2014 commission race, said he drew APS' ire by going to a pro-solar

gathering where he gathered campaign petition signatures.</font></span>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The bizarre thing is that I

would have been fair," Parker said. "Any issue that would have been

raised, I would have asked, 'What does this mean to our ratepayers?'"</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Commissioner Andy Tobin, who

was backed by the utility in his 2016 race even though he said he

discouraged it</b>, said APS should have been up front about its 2014

spending and explained its belief that the solar industry posed a threat

to its business.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"That's what they should have done, and I don't know why they didn't," Tobin said.</font></p></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> =</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/coal-mining-jobs-us-2532209397.html">https://www.ecowatch.com/coal-mining-jobs-us-2532209397.html</a></font></p><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">West's Largest Coal-Fired Power Plant Confirms Shutdown Plan, Miners Fight to Save Jobs</font></h1></div><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="js-scroll-trigger" data-target="body" data-triggers="render-rebelbar" data-toggle-class="with-floating-shares" data-loaded="true" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></span></font></p><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2532209397" data-authors="Climate Nexus" data-headline="West's Largest Coal-Fired Power Plant Confirms Shutdown Plan, Miners Fight to Save Jobs" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coal miners and supporters, many of them members of the Navajo and Hopi tribes, rallied in Phoenix Tuesday to protest the impending shutdown of the West's largest <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/coal" style="text-decoration-line: none;">coal</a>-fired power plant.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While Interior Sec. <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/ryan-zinke" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Ryan Zinke</a> expressed his continued support for keeping the Navajo Generating Station open in a brief statement Tuesday, owners of the plant say they still are planning to take it offline in 2019 due to price pressures from natural gas.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The future of the plant, which provides more than 800 jobs to primarily Navajo and Hopi workers as well as tribal royalties, has proved a flash point for national and regional energy policy and <a href="https://nexusmedianews.com/navajos-see-opportunity-in-coal-plant-closure-b50c407b7636" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">raised larger questions</a> on how Native communities will handle ties to <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/fossil-fuels" style="text-decoration-line: none;">fossil fuel</a> industries as the economy changes. "I understand, we understand, you understand the challenges," Navajo Nation Council Speaker LoRenzo Bates said in a speech at the rally. "There's your jobs, the revenue, the economy, the water, but it goes beyond that. If NGS does shut down ... those jobs are going to be very hard to replace."</font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/fbi-arizona-public-2467980589.html">https://www.ecowatch.com/fbi-arizona-public-2467980589.html</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">FBI Launches Investigation Against Arizona Power Company Trying to Block Rooftop Solar</font></h1></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="js-scroll-trigger" data-target="body" data-triggers="render-rebelbar" data-toggle-class="with-floating-shares" data-loaded="true" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></span></font><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="article-body body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url selectionShareable" data-url="https://www.ecowatch.com/fbi-arizona-public-2467980589.html" data-headline="FBI Launches Investigation Against Arizona Power Company Trying to Block Rooftop Solar" data-elid="2467980589" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="article-description body-description" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Jeremy Deaton</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rooftop <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/solar" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">solar power</a> is getting cheaper and cheaper, and nowhere does that scare utilities more than in Arizona, where abundant sunshine makes solar an attractive option for many homeowners.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over the last several years, the Arizona Public Service Company (APS), the largest power provider in the state, has tried thwarting rooftop solar by getting utility-friendly candidates elected to the Arizona Corporation Commission, which regulates the state's utilities. Now, APS is <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/energy/2016/07/06/fbi-questions-clean-energy-advocacy-group-az-corporation-commission-inquiry/86757378/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">reportedly</a> being investigated by the FBI over its political spending.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="text-align: center;">"The FBI is currently conducting a long-term investigation related to the financing of certain statewide races in the 2014 election cycle," special agent Matthew Reinsmoen told the Arizona Republic in early June. In 2014, APS allegedly funded a </span><a href="http://azsaveourfuturenow.com/" target="blank" style="text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">political nonprofit</a><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">that supported the candidacy of two utility-friendly Republican candidates for the regulatory commission. The nonprofit is not required to disclose its donors.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The allegations of wrongdoing suggest the lengths to which embattled utilities are willing to go to protect their interests. For most of its long history, APS steered clear of politics. But, in recent years, the utility has supported the candidacy of utility-friendly Republicans running for seats on the five-member regulatory commission. Until recently, the commission included two Democrats. Thanks in part to a concerted effort by APS, all five commissioners are now Republicans, most of whom oppose rooftop solar.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The investigation kicked off after the former chairman of the regulatory commission, Gary Pierce, was <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2017/07/05/roberts-bombshell-dropped-arizonas-power-elite/452737001/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">indicted</a>for allegedly raising the rates for a water and sewer company in exchange for payments to his wife. The FBI probe of Pierce led to an inquiry into APS, which had allegedly tried to influence Pierce by contributing to his son's campaign for Arizona secretary of state.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here's a brief timeline of events. This draws from the reporting of the Arizona Republic and other local news outlets.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/07/08/how-arizona-corporation-commission-turned-anti-solar-just-few-years">https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/07/08/how-arizona-corporation-commission-turned-anti-solar-just-few-years</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Arizona Corporation Commission (<span class="caps">ACC</span>), which regulates public utilities and telecommunications companies, is facing <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/energy/2016/07/06/fbi-questions-clean-energy-advocacy-group-az-corporation-commission-inquiry/86757378/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">increased scrutiny by the <span class="caps">FBI</span></a> and <a href="http://www.havasunews.com/opinion/our-view-arizona-corporation-commission-time-for-a-recharge/article_0d36f220-4342-11e6-9e43-177a59c09d00.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">backlash from state media outlets</a> over its political activities and antagonistic position towards rooftop solar and net metering.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <span class="caps">ACC</span> consists of five elected members. All current commissioners are Republicans, and at least three oppose residential solar energy generation. While the commission used to have more pro-solar members, outside forces have aided anti-solar candidates in recent years, cementing a commission hostile to the growing renewables industry.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A battle between big electric utilities and solar advocates has been waging for years, and soon the commission will again take up more solar issues and rate increase requests from numerous electric utility companies.</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>The Solar Fight</strong></font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2006, the <span class="caps">ACC</span> created a strong <a href="http://www.seia.org/research-resources/rps-solar-carve-out-arizona" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Renewable Portfolio Standard</a>, requiring utilities to generate or purchase 15 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2025. Three years later, Arizona established net metering, a system that allows homes and businesses to sell excess solar energy they generate on their rooftops back to the grid at the retail electricity rate.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Without net metering, the market for residential and small-business solar energy plummets. Just recently in Nevada, ending net metering <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/05/09/we-were-booming-and-now-we-re-dead-how-nevada-s-solar-industry-bright-spot-turned-dark" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">killed the rooftop solar industry</a> in the state.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <span class="caps">ACC</span>’s environmentally friendly coalition shrank in the <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2010/06/21/story2.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">2010</a> and 2012 elections. Then in 2013, the state’s biggest electric utility, Arizona Public Service Company (<span class="caps">APS</span>), viewing residents as energy-generating competitors, funded an ad campaign to rally support for increasing costs on solar customers.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Solar companies including SolarCity and Sunrun started a competing spending group, <a href="http://dontkillsolar.com/tusk/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Tell Utilities Solar won’t be Killed</a>, or <span class="caps">TUSK</span>, which advocated keeping net metering in place. SolarCity provided most of the <a href="http://www.followthemoney.org/show-me?f-eid=25167281#[{1|gro=d-eid" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">funding</a>. In the end, the commissioners agreed on a roughly $5 monthly fee for solar customers, far less than the $50 to $100 fee proposed by <span class="caps">APS</span>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then the 2014 elections replaced two pro-solar Democrats on the commission with two very utility-friendly Republican commissioners.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SolarCity this year started a ballot-measure campaign to enshrine net metering into the Arizona constitution. <span class="caps">APS</span> responded by leaning on their friends in the state Senate to put two different measures to the ballot, both hostile to solar installers.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pinnacle West, the holding company that own <span class="caps">APS</span>, is the <a href="http://www.followthemoney.org/show-me?f-eid=12997825#[{1|gro=d-eid" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">top corporate contributor</a> to the campaigns of <span class="caps">GOP</span> Sen. Debbie Lesko, the Arizona state chair of corporate bill mill the American Legislative Exchange Council (<span class="caps">ALEC</span>), who proposed one of the ballot initiatives. But SolarCity and <span class="caps">APS</span> decided to <a href="http://www.utilitydive.com/news/inside-the-deal-that-averted-a-net-metering-ballot-showdown-in-arizona/418392/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">scrap the measures</a> and took part in one failed mediated talk. Further discussions are <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/energy/2016/06/09/aps-solarcity-fail-reach-agreement-over-net-metering/85668380/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">suspended</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now <span class="caps">APS</span> is calling for an <a href="http://www.12news.com/news/local/valley/aps-seeks-8-percent-rate-hike-cut-in-solar-subsidy/226429618" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">8 percent rate increase</a> on its electricity customers, a huge drop in reimbursement rates for excess distributed solar energy, a large increase in the monthly fee for solar users and a new “<a href="http://www.utilitydive.com/news/arizona-public-service-pushes-residential-demand-charges-in-new-rate-case/420112/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">demand charge</a>” for these customers, which is a significant extra fee based on the customer’s highest average hour of usage each month. Other utilities have made similar requests.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Based on the commission’s <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/energy/2016/02/25/two-democrats-launch-campaign-utility-regulators/80940650/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">entanglements</a> with and favoritism towards <span class="caps">APS</span>, the rooftop solar industry could now be on the verge of collapse in Arizona.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So how did the makeup of the commission get so friendly with <span class="caps">APS</span> and hostile to non-utility-scale solar? DeSmog follows the money.</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Electing Anti-Solar Commissioners</strong></font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2012, Republicans Bob Burns and Susan Bitter Smith defeated two Democratic incumbents, and incumbent Republican Bob Stump kept his seat.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two years later, Republican candidates Tom Forese and Doug Little, who have anti-solar views in line with those of <span class="caps">APS</span>, beat pro-solar Democrats Sandra Kennedy and Jim Holway for two open seats. Amidst a recent <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/energy/2015/12/17/susan-bitter-smith-resigns-arizona-corporation-commission/77501558/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">conflict-of-interest controversy</a>, Bitter Smith resigned and <a href="http://www.sierraclub.org/arizona/blog/2016/05/sierra-club-releases-2016-report-card-for-arizona-legislature-and-governor" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">anti-environmentalist</a> and <a href="http://www.alternet.org/education/arizona-turning-one-big-right-wing-laboratory-koch-brothers" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Koch favorite</a> Republican Gov. Doug Ducey appointed former Republican State Rep. Andy Tobin to fill her seat at the beginning of 2016.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the heart of the outside spending in the 2014 <span class="caps">ACC</span> races is the “social welfare” nonprofit Arizona Free Enterprise Club (<span class="caps">AFEC</span>), which was formed in 2005 and has spent millions on state-level races in Arizona for governor, state legislature, secretary of state and the <span class="caps">ACC</span>, without having to disclose its donors. <span class="caps">AFEC</span> earlier <a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/legal-work/arizona-free-enterprise-club-v-bennett" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">fought Arizona’s public campaign finance program</a> before the <span class="caps">U.S.</span> Supreme Court, resulting in a 2011 decision that threw out part of the program.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2014, <span class="caps">AFEC</span> had its hands on the majority of the money benefiting the two victorious anti-solar <span class="caps">ACC</span> candidates. The group made direct independent expenditures in favor of Forese and Little, according to data compiled by the National Institute on Money in State Politics.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="caps">AFEC</span> spent a combined $113,000 against Forese and Little’s Republican primary opponents Lucy Mason and Vernon Parker, who were considered to be pro-solar. In the general election, <span class="caps">AFEC</span> spent over $308,000 on ads supporting Little and Forese while also spending more than $32,000 attacking their two Democratic opponents, incumbents Sandra Kennedy and Jim Holway. Overall, <span class="caps">AFEC</span> dished out over $453,000 on independent expenditures benefiting Forese and Little.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But <span class="caps">AFEC</span>, which gives large sums of money to many groups, also sent a hefty $2.7 million to another Arizona-based secret-money group, Save Our Future Now (<span class="caps">SOFN</span>). That group spent nearly $2.5 million on outside expenditures benefiting Forese and Little: roughly $292,000 for Little; $290,000 for Forese; $832,000 against Parker in the <span class="caps">GOP</span> primary; $30,000 against Mason in that primary; and over $1.3 million against Kennedy in the general.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2013, <span class="caps">APS</span> gave $181,000 to the Arizona State University Foundation, which then gave <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/2015/03/11/asu-non-profit-accepted-aps-donation-gave-anti-solar-group/24746211/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">$100,000 to <span class="caps">SOFN</span></a>, its only contribution that year to a 501c4 “social welfare” nonprofit. Bill Post, former chairman and <span class="caps">CEO</span> of Pinnacle West, was board chair of the foundation, a position he still holds.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Arizona Chamber of Commerce also helped elect Forese and Little, to a lesser degree. The trade association spent over <a href="http://www.followthemoney.org/show-me?dt=2&is-y=2014&is-f-eid=17296&is-t-eid=23309134,6690615#[{1|gro=is-f-eid,is-t-ceid,is-t-p,is-r-id,is-y" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">$61,000</a> on Forese and Little. Pinnacle West’s political action committee has given $15,000 to the Chamber’s <span class="caps">PAC</span> from 2013 to present. And Jim Hatfield, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Pinnacle West and <span class="caps">APS</span>, sits on <a href="http://www.azchamber.com/about/board-of-directors.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the board of the Chamber</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2012, the Arizona Business Coalition, a “social welfare” nonprofit created by the Chamber, gave $7,500 to Taxpayers’ Voice Fund, a group set up entirely to help elect Republicans Bob Burns, Susan Bitter Smith and Bob Stump. The Voice Fund split almost $188,000 between the three candidates, making independent expenditures to their benefit. The Arizona Republic revealed that <span class="caps">APS</span> gave <a href="http://archive.azcentral.com/business/consumer/articles/20131109arizona-utilities-cash-went-acc-campaigns.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">at least $101,000</a> to the business coalition.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2012, <span class="caps">APS</span>’s current vice president of state and local affairs <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-pacheco-34421b" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Jessica Pacheco</a> sat on the Arizona Business Coalition board, but disappeared from the list in 2013 after controversy over the group’s donations to the Voice Fund. She’s currently on the board of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce Foundation.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pinnacle West has donated at least $35,000 to the Edison Electric Institute’s “Power <span class="caps">PAC</span>” since 2009, according to Federal Elections Commission data. The Edison Electric Institute is a member of <span class="caps">ALEC</span>, having <a href="http://www.energyandpolicy.org/campaign-against-net-metering-alec-utility-interests-arizona/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">worked with <span class="caps">ALEC</span> to create a model bill</a>that attacked net metering. Burns was once an <span class="caps">ALEC</span> “Legislator of the Year.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Burns may <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2016/05/04/attorney-general-corporation-commission-can-look.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">subpoena <span class="caps">APS</span></a> regarding its political contributions, as he’s voiced concern over <span class="caps">APS</span>’s potential political spending. With Forese and Little <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/energy/2015/10/27/clean-energy-group-questions-regulators-letters-oppose-aps-campaign-disclosures/74646650/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">fiercely defending</a> <span class="caps">APS</span>’s right to donate anonymously to political groups, Stump’s <a href="https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Arizona-Commissioner-Bob-Stump-Accused-of-Close-Ties-with-APS" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">frequent 2014 contact</a> with Forese, Little, the executive director of <span class="caps">AFEC</span> and an executive with <span class="caps">APS</span>, and Ducey-appointed Tobin, Burns may be the only hope for any action on undisclosed political spending by <span class="caps">ACC</span>-regulated utilities such as <span class="caps">APS</span>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The LittleSis map below follows the money and connects many of the individuals and institutions involved in the <span class="caps">ACC</span> elections.</font></p><div style="padding: 5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://littlesis.org/maps/1523-how-the-arizona-corporation-commission-turned-anti-solar" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">view this map on LittleSis</a></font></div><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>The Koch Connections</strong></font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Numerous local news outlets have stated that it’s “<a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2016/06/01/roberts-aps-petitions-its-puppets-rate-hike/85249960/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">widely assumed</a>” that <span class="caps">APS</span>, or Pinnacle West, was the primary source of <span class="caps">AFEC</span>’s 2014 political funding and spent $3.2 million total supporting the election of Forese and Little.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2013, <span class="caps">APS</span> admitted to The Arizona Republic that it <a href="http://archive.azcentral.com/business/news/articles/20131007aps-solar-clash-credits-customers.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">sent money</a> through Koch operative Sean Noble’s consulting firm to the Koch-linked 60 Plus Association and to Prosper, a free-market group founded by Koch-linked Kirk Adams, a former Arizona state legislator and current chief of staff to Ducey, who was elected governor with help from a host of Koch-backed groups.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Both 60 Plus and Prosper <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/solar-arizona-net-metering_n_4164731.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">funded ads</a> in 2013 criticizing net metering as “corporate welfare.” <span class="caps">APS</span> spent <a href="http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2016/04/28/signature-effort-aims-to-derail-solar-ballot-measure/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">$9 million</a> total on efforts attacking net metering in 2013.</font></p><div class="view view-in-this-series view-id-in_this_series view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-98bd258277fc03bb27b727a932f3529d" style="float: right; clear: left; width: 170px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" desmog2015="desmog2015" images="images" desmog-series-list.jpg="desmog-series-list.jpg" center="center" top="top" no-repeat="no-repeat" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" margin="margin" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid"><div class="view-content"><div class="item-list"><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; list-style-image: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" desmog2015="desmog2015" images="images" desmog-series-arrow.gif="desmog-series-arrow.gif"><li class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="field-content"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/11/26/rooftop-solar-threatened-arizona-biggest-public-utility-takes-over-commission-regulates-it" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Rooftop Solar Threatened as Arizona’s Biggest Public Utility Takes Over the Commission That Regulates It</a></span></font></div></li><li class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="field-content"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/10/24/duke-energy-touts-solar-grants-north-carolina-schools-while-holding-back-solar-industry" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Duke Energy Touts Solar Grants To North Carolina Schools While Holding Back Solar Industry</a></span></font></div></li><li class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="field-content"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/10/13/struggles-over-utilities-grip-energy-headed-vote-two-sunny-states" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Struggles Over Utilities’ Grip on Energy Headed to Vote in Two Sunny States</a></span></font></div></li><li class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="field-content"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/06/08/solar-battle-continues-north-carolina-nonprofit-fights-duke-energy" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Solar Battle Continues In North Carolina As Nonprofit Fights Duke Energy</a></span></font></div></li><li class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="field-content"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/03/07/florida-rooftop-solar-advocates-challenge-deceptive-anti-solar-campaign-court" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Florida Rooftop Solar Advocates Challenge Deceptive Anti-Solar Campaign In State Supreme Court</a></span></font></div></li><li class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="field-content"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/03/06/battle-over-solar-energy-s-future-north-carolina-heats-bipartisan-bills-and-civil-protests-mount-against-duke-energy" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Battle Over Solar Energy’s Future In North Carolina Heats Up As Bipartisan Bills and Civil Protests Mount Against Duke Energy’s Obstructionism</a></span></font></div></li><li class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="field-content"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/02/21/warren-buffett-s-quieter-quest-kill-solar-west" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Warren Buffett’s Quieter Quest to Kill Solar in the West</a></span></font></div></li><li class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="field-content"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/05/war-solar" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The War On Solar Is Real, Unlike the “War on Coal”</a></span></font></div></li><li class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd views-row-last"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="field-content"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2014/11/03/utilities-couldn-t-kill-distributed-solar-so-now-they-re-co-opting-business-model" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Utilities Couldn’t Kill Distributed Solar, So Now They’re Co-Opting The Business Model</a></span></font></div></li></ul></div></div></div><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s also possible that much of <span class="caps">AFEC</span>’s funding came out of the vast network of conservative mega-donors led by the Koch brothers. Founding director Randy Kendrick, a big Republican donor and close ally of the Koch brothers, reportedly resigned from <span class="caps">AFEC</span>’s board in mid-2014. She is “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/15/koch-brothers-republican-donors-disappointed-donald-trump-attacks" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">a leading Koch donor</a>,” having attended the Kochs’ “donor summits” and <a href="http://www.alternet.org/education/arizona-turning-one-big-right-wing-laboratory-koch-brothers" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">teamed up with Charles Koch</a> to found and fund a free-market academic center at the University of Arizona, which, along with two other similar centers, will now receive annual state funding. She introduced Sean Noble, the founder of the Center to Protect Patient Rights (now known as American Encore) to the Koch network.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kendrick also sits on the board of the Goldwater Institute, a conservative think tank that has received donations from the Charles Koch Foundation and is known for pushing policies developed by <span class="caps">ALEC</span>, <a href="https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Arizona-Politics-at-Odds-with-Solar-and-Renewable-Industry-Progress" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">opposing renewable energy standards</a> and <a href="http://goldwaterinstitute.org/en/work/topics/free-enterprise/taxes-and-spending/how-to-make-the-sun-shine-on-solar-energy/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">subsidies for the solar industry</a>. Strangely, <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/07/barry-goldwater-tusk-arizona-solar-net-metering" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Barry Goldwater, Jr</a>., a board member and the son of the institute’s namesake, is chairman of the solar advocacy group <span class="caps">TUSK</span>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among the only known contributions to <span class="caps">AFEC</span> in 2014 are $450,000 from American Encore and $230,000 from American Commitment, formed in 2011, whose president is Koch operative Phil Kerpin and former director is Noble. Both groups are deeply tied to the Kochs, and <span class="caps">AFEC</span> gave hundreds of thousands to Koch-linked groups in 2014, including $710,000 to American Encore and $200,000 to the 60 Plus Association, indicating that <span class="caps">AFEC</span> could in fact be a conduit for secret donations from the Kochs, Kendrick and other conservative mega-donors.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="caps">AFEC</span> also spent more than $752,000 supporting unsuccessful secretary of state candidate Justin Pierce and attacking his opponents. Pierce is the son of former Corporation Commissioner Gary Pierce, who’s now <a href="http://www.12news.com/news/local/whistleblower-alleges-wrongdoing-at-arizona-agency/184930605" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">under investigation by the <span class="caps">FBI</span></a> and the Arizona Attorney General for potentially trading commission votes for outside aid to his son’s election effort. Pierce had numerous lunch dates with <span class="caps">APS</span> <span class="caps">CEO</span> Don Brandt and may have had a hand in helping elect Republicans to the commission in 2012.</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>This Year’s Race For Arizona Corporate Commission Seats</strong></font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Three commission seats are up for grabs this year. Incumbents Burns and Tobin are running for reelection while Bob Stump has termed out. Democrats Bill Mundell, a former commissioner, and former state lawmaker Tom Chabin are running for two of the seats. On August 30, voters will choose their party nominees for the general election on November 8.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mundell and Chabin, who are using what’s left of the state’s public campaign finance program, have taken strong stands against <span class="caps">APS</span> and the corrupt <span class="caps">ACC</span>, including this <a href="http://mesaindependent.com/opinions/tom-chabin-bill-mundell-proposed-code-ethics-arizona-corporation-commission/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">proposed ethics code</a> for commissioners. Chabin told DeSmog that <span class="caps">APS</span> should “trust the voter and stay out of it … Putting $3 million into campaigns for an obscure office is buying an election.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>Thirty years from now, the generation of electricity be far more localized,” Chabin said. Are we going to have a commission that will facilitate that destiny?”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">None of the groups spending in the 2014 commission races have reported commission-related expenditures thus far this year, although the Republicans running this year appear sympathetic to <span class="caps">APS</span>, according to Chabin. With the primary only weeks away, it’s likely outside groups could kick into gear soon.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In April, the Arizona legislature passed <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/legislature/2016/03/29/arizona-dark-money-bill-its-way-gov-doug-ducey/82393280/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">a bill making political nonprofits’ elections activity essentially invisible</a> and eliminating criminal enforcement for violations of campaign finance law. Ducey signed it less than 48 hours later.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Koch brothers, Duke Energy and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Arizona Public Service</span></b> are among 12 special interest groups waging aggressive anti-solar campaigns across the country, often coordinated and behind the scenes, a new Environment America Research and Policy Center report said today. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While American solar power has increased four-fold since 2010, state by state, utilities and powerful industry front groups have begun chipping away at key policies that helped spur this solar boom, according to the analysis, “Blocking the Sun: 12 Utilities and Fossil Fuel Interests That Are Undermining American Solar Power.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Fossil-fuel interests and their allies have been using the same playbook to undermine solar power across the country,” said Bret Fanshaw, the solar program coordinator for Environment America. “And they’ve largely been operating in the shadows.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The playbook: a national network of utility interest groups and fossil fuel industry-funded think tanks provides funding, model legislation and political cover for anti-solar campaigns. The report examines five of these major national players—<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Edison Electric Institute, American Legislative Exchange Council, Koch brothers and their front group Americans for Prosperity, Heartland Institute and Consumer Energy Alliance.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then, in state after state, electric utilities use the support provided by these national anti-solar interests, supplemented by their own ample resources, to attack key solar energy policies.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The report features seven utilities—Arizona Public Service, Duke Energy, American Electric Power, Berkshire Hathaway Industries, Salt River Project, FirstEnergy and We Energies.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We found that most attacks on solar energy happen behind closed doors in utility agencies or in dense regulatory filings—away from public view,” said Gideon Weissman of the Frontier Group and co-author of the report. “That’s probably because they’re aimed at very popular policies that give regular consumers the chance to go solar.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charles and David Koch have an enormous financial stake in the fossil fuel industry through their company Koch Industries and its many subsidiaries. Koch Industries alone operates around 4,000 miles of pipeline, along with oil refineries in Alaska, Minnesota and Texas.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Through its front group Americans for Prosperity and funding to other like-minded entities, the Koch brothers have<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> attacked solar laws in several states including Florida, Georgia, Kansas, North Carolina, Arizona, Minnesota, Ohio, South Carolina and Washington.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Utilities like Arizona Public Service augment resources from interests like the Kochs to forward an anti-solar agenda. Arizona Public Service admitted to funding anti-solar ads by 60 plus, a national Koch-backed front group that purports to represent seniors and it has been accused of improper influence with the Arizona Corporation Commission.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’ve seen first-hand how some energy monopolies have used money in campaigns to intimidate and manipulate policy makers and elected officials,” said Rep. Ken Clark, a state representative from Arizona who has pushed Arizona Public Service to disclose its political spending. “Aside from the question of renewable energy, this activity has become a threat to our electoral system.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arizona Public Service’s latest stealth move against solar has been to withdraw its request to raise fees on solar owners until the commission completes a study that would only examine costs and not benefits, of the resource.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Florida, where solar capacity is far beneath its potential, Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity and Duke Energy, the largest utility in the U.S., have teamed up to block pro-solar policies. Duke Energy spent heavily to help re-elect Gov. Rick Scott, who campaigned against a state renewable electricity standard. Americans for Prosperity has mobilized its members and waged an aggressive ad campaign against a ballot initiative to expand rooftop solar by allowing third-party sales of panels. Duke Energy has also contributed to that effort. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The anti-solar coalition Consumers for Smart Solar, backed by Americans for Prosperity, Duke Energy and others</span>, has now put forward a competing ballot measure in Florida to undermine the rooftop solar amendment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“By wide margins, Americans support pro-solar policies,” said Fanshaw. “That’s why fossil fuel interests and their front groups have resorted to shady and deceptive tactics to undermine them. Ultimately it will be up to state leaders to reject these attacks and support a clean energy future.”</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://ecowatch.com/2015/02/13/solar-jobs-arizona-despite-big-utilities/</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And the Arizona Solar Jobs Census released by The Solar Foundation yesterday shows that solar is providing jobs by the thousands in the state, with a total of nearly 9,20o including 600 created in the last year. That puts it third in the nation, behind California—by far the national leader with 54,700 jobs—and Massachusetts, with 9,400 jobs. Arizona solar employers believe the number could climb to more than 11,000 by the end of 2015.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In 2013, APS led the assault to weaken Arizona’s net metering policies by proposing a new $50-$100 surcharge on rooftop solar installations in the state,” said the Sierra Club. “The proposed solar fee was opposed by a diverse coalition of organizations including conservative organizations, clean energy businesses, environmental advocates and many other groups.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition, the state’s second largest utility company, the Salt River Project, is currently proposing a package of rate changes that could increase the utility bills of solar customers by about $50 per month. APS has also been advocating for a property tax on leased solar panels, which comprise about 85 percent of the state’s new solar installation and can make solar panels more affordable for the average homeowner.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“With the growth of leasing programs that allow building owners to acquire rooftop solar at little to no upfront cost and without ownership responsibilities, rooftop solar is booming and utilities’ lost revenues are becoming noticeable,” wrote GreenTechMedia.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Solar Foundation’s report points to legislative and regulatory uncertainty as one of the things that could impede the growth of solar....</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Noble’s biggest known client in recent months has been Arizona’s largest electric utility, Arizona Public Service, which DC London worked for in a </span><a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/blog/energy-inc/2013/10/arizona-solar-group-wants-aps.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; line-height: 22.4px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">contentious fight over solar energy</a><span style="line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.  In a strange twist, the face of the pro-solar side was Barry Goldwater Jr., the son of Noble’s idol.</span></font>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wells_Fargo" title="Wells Fargo" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wells Fargo</a></b>, which was a member of ALEC in 2011, told CMD in September 2012 that it declined to renew its ALEC membership in 2012,<sup id="cite_ref-39-40_33-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Corporations_Who_Have_Cut_Ties_to_ALEC#cite_note-39-40-33" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[33]</a></sup> and then subsequently sponsored ALEC's 2013 Annual Meeting in Chicago.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Corporations_Who_Have_Cut_Ties_to_ALEC#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[56]</a></sup></font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arizona_Public_Service" title="Arizona Public Service" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 102);">Arizona Public Service</a></b><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> told the </span><i style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Arizona Capitol Times</i><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> on April 12th that its membership expired that summer and they would not renew it,</span><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Corporations_Who_Have_Cut_Ties_to_ALEC#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[57]</a></sup><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> then rejoined ALEC in November 2012, paying "$7,000 in membership fees and an additional $3,000 to have a seat on ALEC’s </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Energy,_Environment_and_Agriculture_Task_Force" title="Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force</a><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">," again according to the </span><i style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Arizona Capitol Times</i><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Corporations_Who_Have_Cut_Ties_to_ALEC#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[58]</a></sup></font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EnergySolutions" title="EnergySolutions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">EnergySolutions</a></b>, which had been a member of ALEC's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Energy,Environment_and_Agriculture_Task_Force" title="Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force</a>, told CMD in July 2012 that it had been an ALEC member but was no longer "in a position to contribute at this time,"<sup id="cite_ref-27.2F28_25-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Corporations_Who_Have_Cut_Ties_to_ALEC#cite_note-27.2F28-25" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[25]</a></sup> but still listed as member of host committee in July 25-29, 2012 meeting brochure and rejoined ALEC's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Energy,Environment_and_Agriculture_Task_Force" title="Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force</a> on June 12, 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-ALECboard_12-6" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Corporations_Who_Have_Cut_Ties_to_ALEC#cite_note-ALECboard-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></li>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, in<b> Arizona,</b> after the state's largest utility, an ALEC member, asked the public-utility commission for a tax of up to $150 per month for solar households, the opposition was fierce and well-organized. A compromise was worked out – those households would be charged just $5 per month – but <span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">Barry Goldwater Jr.</span>, the leader of a newly formed organization called TUSK (Tell Utilities Solar won't be Killed), is fighting a new attempt to discourage rooftop solar in Arizona. Characteristically, the Koch brothers and their allies have been using secretive and deceptive funding in Arizona to run television advertisements attacking "greedy" owners of rooftop solar panels – but their effort has thus far backfired, as local journalists have exposed the funding scam.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even though the Koch-funded forces recently scored a partial (and almost certainly temporary) victory in Ohio, where the legislature voted to put a hold on the state's renewable-portfolio standard and study the issue for two years, it's clear that the attack on solar energy is too little, too late. Last year, the Edison Electric Institute warned the utility industry that it had waited too long to respond to the sharp cost declines and growing popularity of solar: "At the point when utility investors become focused on these new risks and start to witness significant customer- and earnings-erosion trends, they will respond to these challenges. But, by then, it may be too late to repair the utility business model."</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The most seductive argument deployed by the Koch brothers and their allies is that those who use rooftop solar electricity and benefit from the net-metering policies are "free riders" – that is, they are allegedly not paying their share of the maintenance costs for the infrastructure of the old utility model, including the grid itself. This deceptive message, especially when coupled with campaign contributions, has persuaded some legislators to support the proposed new taxes on solar panels.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the argument ignores two important realities facing the electric utilities: First, most of the excess solar electricity is supplied by owners of solar cells during peak-load hours of the day, when the grid's capacity is most stressed – thereby alleviating the pressure to add expensive new coal- or gas-fired generating capacity. But here's the rub: What saves money for their customers cuts into the growth of their profits and depresses their stock prices. As is often the case, the real conflict is between the public interest and the special interest.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The second reality ignored by the Koch brothers is the one they least like to discuss, the one they spend so much money trying to obfuscate with their<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">hired "merchants of doubt."</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You want to talk about the uncompensated use of infrastructure? What about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>sewage infrastructure</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for 98 million tons per day of gaseous, heat-trapping waste that is daily released into our skies, threatening the future of human civilization? Is it acceptable to use the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet as an open sewer? Free of charge? Really?...</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-turning-point-new-hope-for-the-climate-20140618?print=true">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-turning-point-new-hope-for-the-climate-20140618?print=true</a></font>

<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Arizona Public Service Company</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(APS) is the largest electric utility in Arizona and the principal subsidiary of publicly-traded S&P 500 member<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Pinnacle_West_Capital" title="Pinnacle West Capital" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pinnacle West Capital</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Corporation (NYSE: PNW). In 1985 APS had reorganized into a holding company structure named AZP Group, renamed Pinnacle West Capital in 1987. APS, with 4,000 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity, serves more than one million customers in 11 counties throughout most of the state, but mainly concentrated in northern and central Arizona.<sup id="cite_ref-seekalpha_1-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_note-seekalpha-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font>

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<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Arizona Public Service Company</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has previously been a corporate funder of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(ALEC).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It announced it would end its ALEC membership April 12, 2012,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>then rejoined ALEC in November 2012, paying "$7,000 in membership fees and an additional $3,000 to have a seat on ALEC’s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Energy,_Environment_and_Agriculture_Task_Force" title="Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force</a>," according to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Arizona Capitol Times</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>See<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Corporations_Who_Have_Cut_Ties_to_ALEC" title="Corporations Who Have Cut Ties to ALEC" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Corporations Who Have Cut Ties to ALEC</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for more.</font></p>

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<div style="padding: 2px 5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC" title="ALEC" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ALEC</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected officials to approve “model” bills. Learn more at the Center for Media and Democracy's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alecexposed.org/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">ALECexposed.org</a>, and check out breaking news on our<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">PRWatch.org site</a>.</font></div>

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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arizona Public Service owns or partly owns the following plants:<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Four_Corners_Steam_Plant" title="Four Corners Steam Plant" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Four Corners Steam Plant</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a five-unit, 2,040-megawatt Power Plant, located on the<b> Navajo Indian Reservation </b>west of Farmington, New Mexico, and operated by APS. Fueled by low-sulfur coal from the nearby Navajo mine, the plant is owned by APS and five other utilities in the Southwest. APS' stake in Four Corners makes 782 megawatts of energy available to the APS system.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cholla_Generating_Station" title="Cholla Generating Station" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cholla Generating Station</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a 995-megawatt Power Plant located in northeastern Arizona near Holbrook. APS operates the plant and owns Units 1, 2 and 3, while<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/PacifiCorp" title="PacifiCorp" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">PacifiCorp</a>(PAC) owns the 380-megawatt Unit 4 - the largest unit at the plant. The two utilities participate in a seasonal power exchange. Cholla is fueled by coal from the McKinley Mine in New Mexico.</font></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Navajo_Generating_Station" title="Navajo Generating Station" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Navajo Generating Station</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is located in northern Arizona on the Navajo Indian Reservation near Page, and features three 750-megawatt coal-fueled, steam-electric generating units. An electric railroad delivers coal to the plant from a mine on the Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservations at Black Mesa in northern Arizona. The plant is operated by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Salt_River_Project" title="Salt River Project" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Salt River Project</a>, and is owned by a partnership of five utility companies and the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation. APS owns 14 percent of the plant.</font></li>

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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In September 2009 APS received $70.5 million from a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._Department_of_Energy" title="U.S. Department of Energy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. Department of Energy</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(DOE) grant to try to feed APS carbon emissions to an algae pond, in the hope of eventually converting the algae to biofuel. The grant will support the utility's carbon sequestration project at its Cholla Generating Station. The grant comes from the DOE's roughly $1.4 billion<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clean_Coal_Power_Initiative" title="Clean Coal Power Initiative" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Clean Coal Power Initiative</a>, which has also seen applications from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duke_Energy" title="Duke Energy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Duke Energy</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NRG_Energy" title="NRG Energy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">NRG Energy</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Southern_Company" title="Southern Company" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Southern Company</a>, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Electric_Power" title="American Electric Power" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">American Electric Power</a>, among other utilities.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p>

<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arizona Public Service Company began to pay a cash dividend to shareholders in 1920, and continued the annual dividend without interruption through the 1980s. The stock doubled in price through the long bear market of the 1970s, while paying a 10% dividend yield. By then it had become an electric and natural gas utility fueled 94.4% by coal plants, 5.2% by natural gas, and 0.4% by oil. The company traded its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange, and in 1976, the company issued a preferred stock with a 10.5% dividend, callable in 1990.<sup id="cite_ref-stockguide_7-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_note-stockguide-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">APS also performed well through the early 1980s recession, reaching peak earnings of over $255 million in 1983. However, by then the company had accumulated over $2.1 billion in long-term debt. 1984 was a down year for both earnings and the stock price, which at its low that year had lost almost half its value from the 1983 peak.<sup id="cite_ref-stockguide_7-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_note-stockguide-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font></p>

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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In February 1985, Arizona Public Service Company reorganized into a holding company structure, named<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>AZP Group Inc.</b><sup id="cite_ref-appa_8-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_note-appa-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It traded under the ticker symbol AZP. 1985 earnings reached a new record high at almost $290 million, and by the end of the year the stock price had doubled from its 1984 low.<sup id="cite_ref-stockguide_7-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_note-stockguide-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font></p>

<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1987, AZP Group changed its name to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Pinnacle_West_Capital" title="Pinnacle West Capital" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pinnacle West Capital</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Corporation, and began trading under the new ticker symbol PNW. The utility continued to operate as its principal subsidiary.<sup id="cite_ref-appa_8-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_note-appa-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font>

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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On March 30, 2010,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Southern_California_Edison" title="Southern California Edison" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Southern California Edison</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(SCE) informed<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arizona_Public_Service" title="Arizona Public Service" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Arizona Public Service</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(APS) of the company's intentions to divest its 48 percent stake of Four Corners Power Plant by 2016. According to APS, Southern California Edison announced it did not plan to sell its shares on the open market. SCE, which supplies power to greater Southern California, does not believe that Four Corners' coal burning is the energy wave of the future. Other issues that may have prompted SCE to divest its interests include proposed legislative initiatives to regulate carbon from power plants, Best Available Retrofit Technology requirements for the plant by fall 2010, and the possible regulation of coal fly ash as a hazardous waste.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In October 2010, the California Public Utilities Commission signaled that it would end investments will be allowed at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Four_Corners_Steam_Plant" title="Four Corners Steam Plant" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Four Corners Steam Plant</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>after 2012 to be in compliance with SB 1368, the Emissions Performance Standard. The law, passed in 2006, prohibited new ownership investment in power plants that fail to meet minimum performance standard for carbon emissions. This law effectively prohibited investment in coal burning plants. Southern California Edison owns 48% of two of the generating units at Four Corners.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then in November 2010 Edison International announced their intentions to sell their share of the Four Corners Steam Plant to Pinnacle West Capital Corp. (PNW) unit Arizona Public Service Co. for the price $294 million.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Edison stated that it will sell its 48% stake in Units 4 and 5 of the plant, which at the time was still subject to approval from federal and state regulators in Arizona and California, Edison spokesman Gil Alexander said.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font>

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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On November 8, 2010,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arizona_Public_Service" title="Arizona Public Service" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Arizona Public Service</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>announced that it had entered into an agreement to purchase<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Southern_California_Edison" title="Southern California Edison" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Southern California Edison</a>'s share of Four Corners Steam Plant Units 4 and 5, which it plans to retrofit with additional emission controls. The company will close Units 1, 2, and 3. There will be no layoffs at the plant, which employs 549 workers, 74 percent of whom are Navajo.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Closing the three units will reduce the capacity of Four Corners by 633 megawatts (nameplate capacity) or 560 megawatts (net summer capacity). Units 1 and 2 were built in 1963, and Unit 3 was built in 1964.</font></p>

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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">APS

PO Box 53933 Sta. 3200

Phoenix, AZ 85072

Phone: (800) 253-9405

Website:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.aps.com/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaduleqvqyv2p4="AAAAdUlEQVQYV2P4" awxv3lthf0dxkxyd="Awxv3LThf0dXKxyD" da5deug="DA5DEUg" twrv2aawtfcibojyjrhctgtrmcgebhpl2="tWrV2AaWTFcIboJyJrhCtGtRMcgebhpL2" v="v" lvn="Lvn" x="x" irjifn8v="IRjIfn8v" p="P" t055gxzgkpzac8y="t055gxZgKPzaC8Y" nmyqvlpnm8f="nMYQVLpnM8f" zo3aqkfzyool="zo3AqKfzyOOL" h="h" sh="sh" c9sbusiyvaerdjwjk4e="c9sBUSIyvAeRdJWjk4E" aaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">https://www.aps.com/</a>

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<li id="cite_note-seekalpha-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_ref-seekalpha_1-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://seekingalpha.com/article/20935-pinnacle-west-the-peak-of-the-energy-pyramid" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Pinnacle West: The Peak of the Energy Pyramid</a>, SeekingAlpha.com, By Ted Allrich, posted on: November 20, 2006</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="reference-text">American Legislative Exchange Council,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alec.org/task-forces/energy-environment-and-agriculture/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force</a>, organizational website, accessed April 13, 2011.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>This page has been altered by ALEC and no longer contains this information.</b></span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="reference-text">Jeremy Duda,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/04/12/aps-ending-alec-membership-srp-considers-doing-same/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">APS ending ALEC membership; SRP considers doing same</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Arizona Capitol Times</i>, April 12, 2012.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="reference-text">Luige del Puerto,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2013/11/07/arizona-public-service-aps-quietly-rejoined-alec-american-legislative-exchange-council-months-after-publicly-leaving-in-2012/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Months after publicly leaving ALEC in 2012, APS quietly rejoined</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Arizona Capitol Times</i>, November 7, 2013.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aps.com/general_info/AboutAPS_18.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"APS Power Plants"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>APS Website, August 2009.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="reference-text">Jeff St. John,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/aps-gets-70.5m-to-feed-captured-carbon-to-algae" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"APS Gets $70.5M to Feed Captured Carbon to Algae"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Greentech Media, September 16, 2009</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-stockguide-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><sup style=" line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_ref-stockguide_7-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span>7.0</a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><sup style=" line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_ref-stockguide_7-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7.1</a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><sup style=" line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_ref-stockguide_7-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7.2</a></sup></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="reference-text">Standard & Poor's Stock Guide, various issues</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-appa-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><sup style=" line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_ref-appa_8-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span>8.0</a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><sup style=" line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_ref-appa_8-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8.1</a></sup></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.appanet.org/aboutpublic/index.cfm?ItemNumber=2741&sn.ItemNumber=2039" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Compilation of Investor-Owned Utility Transactions - Holding Companies Established</a>, American Public Power Association, (updated 09-03)</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_ref-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="reference-text">"SCE divesting of Four Corners; APS looks to buy share," Kathy Helms,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Gallup Independent" March 30, 2010.</i></span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_ref-10" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/nlong/california_gets_closer_to_clos.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"California Gets Closer to Closing the Door on Coal"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Noah Long, Natural Resource Defense Council, October 18, 2010.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_ref-11" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20101109-715689.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Edison International To Sell Its Share Of Four Corners Plant"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Dow Jones Newswire, November 9, 2010.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arizona_Public_Service_Company#cite_ref-12" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aps.com/main/news/releases/release_628.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"APS Announces Landmark Accord for Four Corners Power Plant,"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>APS press release, November 8, 2010</span></font></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Existing_U.S._Coal_Plants" title="Existing U.S. Coal Plants" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Existing U.S. Coal Plants</a></font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/New_Mexico_and_coal" title="New Mexico and coal" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New Mexico and coal</a></font></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Susan Kraemer,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cleantechnica.com/2011/12/12/can-alec-dim-arizona-solar-on-tuesday/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Can ALEC Dim Arizona Solar on Tuesday?"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>CleanTechnica, December 12, 2011.</font></li>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">from main az:</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Utility commissioners in Arizona will decide the fate of rooftop solar incentives this week, in what has become the biggest fight over renewable energy policy in the country. A two-day hearing on the issue at the Arizona Corporation Commission<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/13/solar-arizona-idUSL2N0IX1FS20131113" target="hplink" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none 0px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none;">began Wednesday</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Arizona Public Service, the state's largest utility, is asking the commission to change the current policy, which allows homes and businesses with their own solar power systems to sell any excess energy they generate back to the grid. That policy, known as net metering, was first put in place in 2009. The utility argues that customers with rooftop solar aren't paying their fair share to maintain the grid, and has proposed policy changes that would increase prices for those with solar systems. But local solar advocates have accused the utility of trying to kill the state's burgeoning solar industry, and have launched a counter-campaign.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/solar-arizona-net-metering_n_4164731.html" target="hplink" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none 0px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none;">The Huffington Post has previously reported</a>, the fight got interesting when the utility revealed that it had been secretly funding anti-solar ads produced by a national conservative group. After a commissioner<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/31/arizona-solar-net-metering_n_4181871.html" target="hplink" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none 0px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none;">asked the company</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and other groups involved in the net metering debate to disclose how much money they were spending on the issue, APS<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/APSletter.pdf" target="hplink" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none 0px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none;">disclosed that it had spent $3.7 million</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on PR work. The solar lobby disclosed that it was spending nearly half a million dollars on fighting the proposed changes.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; line-height: 21px;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, the Edison Electric Institute, a national group that represents utilities, has jumped in the fight, spending $520,000 on a 10-day television ad campaign in support of APS,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.azcentral.com/business/consumer/articles/20131106expense-solar-battle-millions.html" target="hplink" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none 0px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none;">the Arizona Republic reported</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hundreds of solar supporters<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.kpho.com/story/23962290/hundreds-of-solar-supporters-line-up-for-public-hearing" target="hplink" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none 0px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none;">came to rally outside the hearing</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on Wednesday, and dozens testified. The commission is expected to decide Thursday whether to change the policy.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Forty-three states and the District of Columbia have some manner of net metering policy in place, which has helped<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/22/the-utility-vs-solar-fight-why-whats-at-stake/" target="hplink" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none 0px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none;">spur the growth of solar across the country</a>. Both solar proponents and utilities elsewhere are watching Arizona as a test case for the issue, as a handful of other states have also<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059986606" target="hplink" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none 0px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none;">considered changes to similar policies this year</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p>

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