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Former state utilities head Samuel Randazzo was accused of receiving more than $4.3 million from FirstEnergy and its affiliates to provide favorable official actions for the company. Former state utilities head Samuel Randazzo was accused of receiving more than $4.3 million from FirstEnergy and its affiliates to provide favorable official actions for the company. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In…

Photo: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland (Getty Images)This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here.Electric and gas utilities have used money collected from customers to lobby lawmakers, butter up regulators, and slow the shift to clean energy. Beyond being occasionally illegal, the practice has stuck consumers with higher bills and led to higher carbon dioxide emissions, industry watchdogs say.In one particularly egregious example, the FBI arrested Larry Householder, who was the…