The "revelatory" emails illuminate how DTE "deploys dark money in Michigan", said Karlee Weinmann, research and communications manager with the utility industry watchdog Energy and Policy Institute. The group detailed the emails in a new report...
The donations show DTE "has power and wields influence over parts of people's lives that they don't want DTE to have influence over", said Eli Day, communications director for the We the People Action Fund, which has been involved in utility affordability campaigns.
Donations like this are made through dark money channels because companies know their political donations would generate blowback, Day added.
"Ordinary people who are outraged can have a real impact and change their lives for the better, and DTE is terrified of that," he said…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/michigan-covid-lockdown-dte-energy
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