Walt Baldwin<p>“The Dark Money Game” shines a spotlight on FirstEnergy’s bribes-for-bailouts scheme in Ohio just days after President Trump revived a failed push to use federal emergency powers to bail out coal-fired power plants that FirstEnergy lobbied for extensively during Trump’s first term. </p><p>FirstEnergy secretly paid $60 million to 501(c)(4) Generation Now that plead guilty to racketeering in 2021.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/EnergyMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ohio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/Lycan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lycan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/EnergyTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyTransition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/FirstEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstEnergy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://energyandpolicy.org/hbo-the-dark-money-game-firstenergy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">energyandpolicy.org/hbo-the-da</span><span class="invisible">rk-money-game-firstenergy/</span></a></p>