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'American Electric Power'

L’Oréal, Halter's Scenic Hill Solar open massive new solar project in NLR.

Cosmetics maker L’Oréal and Scenic Hill Solar, a Little Rock-based solar energy company started by former Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, cut the ribbon this morning on a massive new power generating solar array in North Little Rock.
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AEC dumps ALEC

No matter which side of the battle over global warming you're on, that was blockbuster news last week. No, not the signing of the climate-change treaty that commits all of Earth's 195 nations to lowering their greenhouse-gas emissions and slowing the heating of the planet, but American Electric Power's announcement that it would no longer underwrite efforts to block renewable energy or federal smokestack controls in the United States.
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Big news except in Arkansas: The shift from coal

Ernest Dumas this week points out the enormous significance of American Electric Power's decision to depart the conservative ALEC political lobby because it can no longer support that organization's diehard support for the dirty energy of coal-fired electricity production.

American Electric Power leaves ALEC over clean power

The Guardian reports that American Electric Power has left the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council because of its opposition to action on renewable energy and climate change. This should mean a bit more progressive outlook in Arkansas, but it probably won't.
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Taxpayer-supported corporate influence on politics

Citizens United was a bad thing. But the flow of corporate money in Super PACs, bad as it could be, at least has a shred of accountability in financial disclosure.

Sierra Club, Audubon continue power plant fight

The Sierra Club, the National Audubon Society and Audubon Arkansas have asked the Arkansas Public Service Commission to stop construction of American Electric Power's Turk Plant, being built by its SWEPCO subsidiary in Hempstead County.
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Audubon, Sierra Club fight coal plant

Add Audubon Arkansas and the Sierra Club to those seeking a federal court order to halt construction of the American Electric Power coal-burning plant in Hempstead County.
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