PUC Shields Colluding PA Groups’ Internal Communications from PGW

When referring to Big Green groups in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, we often label the groups as “colluding,” meaning they coordinate their legal and public relations attacks against fossil fuel companies. It is something we have long suspected but (unfortunately) can’t prove definitively. We had hoped Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW) was about to prove it (see Colluding PA Anti Groups Fear Internal Communications Made Public). Several groups, including POWER Interfaith, Sierra Club, Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania, Clean Air Council, Vote Solar, PennEnvironment, and the Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group, attacked a recent proposal by PGW to raise rates. PGW asked the Public Utility Commission (PUC) to order the groups to provide internal communications that would prove they have been colluding together. Alas, the PUC turned down the request, preserving the secrecy of the colluders.

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