Jeffrey is a St. Louis-based reporter covering the Midwest power sector for Energywire. Focus areas include the shift by coal-dependent states to cleaner energy sources and the evolution of the utility business model in response to new technologies. Before joining E&E News, Jeffrey was the energy and environment reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he won a SABEW award for a story on the Iowa ethanol boom. He also covered energy for Bloomberg News. A native of Houston, he is a Tulane University graduate with a double major in English and economics.
A sprawling energy and climate bill has been redrafted ahead of the Illinois Legislature's fall session, as lawmakers grapple with a bribery scandal involving Chicago's major utility and the state House's powerful Democratic speaker.
Duke Energy Corp. is charging Indiana customers millions of dollars more than it should to dispatch Indiana coal plants and bypassing cheaper, cleaner alternatives, according to environmental groups.
The Ohio House voted 90-0 to oust Speaker Larry Householder yesterday, moments after a federal grand jury indicted the Republican lawmaker and four others for allegedly running a $60 million racketeering scheme to pass and defend an unpopular energy law.
Illinois' top utility regulator defended her role in helping to oversee the state's largest utility, Commonwealth Edison Co., after the Chicago company admitted to arranging patronage jobs and using bribes to secure passage of energy legislation in Springfield.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, who had defended an energy law at the center of a $61 million racketeering case, reversed course yesterday and called for the repeal and replacement of the measure he signed into law exactly a year ago.