Ry Rivard

New Jersey, New York

Environment Reporter at POLITICO

Reporter @POLITICO / [email protected].

Articles

Blue state Democrats target utility profits in affordability push

1 week ago | politico.com | Marie French |Blanca Begert |Ry Rivard

ALBANY, New York — Flogged by voters — and President Donald Trump — about rising utility bills, Democratic lawmakers in blue states are zeroing in on a juicy target: utility profits. Squeezed by high energy prices on one end and attacks from Republicans on the other, they’re introducing proposals from New York to California to limit how much investors can earn from gas and electric utilities.
Squeezed by Trump, blue states try squeezing utilities in return

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Marie French |Blanca Begert |Ry Rivard

ALBANY, New York — Flogged by voters — and President Donald Trump — about rising utility bills, Democratic lawmakers in blue states are zeroing in on a juicy target: utility profits. Squeezed by high energy prices on one end and attacks from Republicans on the other, they're introducing proposals from New York to California to limit how much investors can earn from gas and electric utilities.
E&E News: Squeezed by Trump, blue states try squeezing utilities

1 week ago | subscriber.politicopro.com | Marie French |Blanca Begert |Ry Rivard
Con Ed CEO pay

1 week ago | politico.com | Marie French |Ry Rivard

Good morning and welcome to the weekly Monday edition of the New York & New Jersey Energy newsletter. We’ll take a look at the week ahead and look back on what you may have missed last week. CON ED PAYOUT: The CEO of Con Edison earned nearly $15 million in total compensation including stock incentives and pension benefits, the company reported last week. A spokesperson for Gov. Kathy Hochul slammed the level of pay for the head of New York’s largest utility.
Zeldin's ambitious evolution

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Ry Rivard |Marie French

Good morning and welcome to the weekly Monday edition of the New York & New Jersey Energy newsletter. We’ll take a look at the week ahead and look back on what you may have missed last week.
Lawmakers clash over power prices

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Ry Rivard |Marie French

Good morning and welcome to the weekly Monday edition of the New York & New Jersey Energy newsletter. We’ll take a look at the week ahead and look back on what you may have missed last week. LAWMAKERS CLASH OVER POWER PRICES — POLITICO’s Ry Rivard: New Jersey consumers are going to face high energy prices “for some time” and the region is at risk for blackouts unless new power plants are built, a senior official from the regional grid operator told state lawmakers on Friday.
Is it OK to say 'Dems in disarray' yet?

4 weeks ago | politico.com | Ry Rivard

Good Thursday Morning!New Jersey Democrats are unhappy with their own party right now, according to a new poll by the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton University.
Wife of Bob Menendez was 'partner in crime,' prosecutors say at her trial

1 month ago | politico.com | Ry Rivard

Nadine Menendez’s trial was delayed because of a breast cancer diagnosis. Nadine Menendez walked alone through the rain to enter the courthouse on Monday for the first full day of the trial. | Seth Wenig/AP NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors began their case against the wife of former Sen. Bob Menendez by arguing she “did the dirty work” to collect bribes for the couple.
Democrats freaking out over power prices

1 month ago | politico.com | Ry Rivard

Good morning and welcome to the weekly Monday edition of the New York & New Jersey Energy newsletter. We’ll take a look at the week ahead and look back on what you may have missed last week. DEMOCRATS FREAKING OUT OVER POWER PRICES — POLITICO’s Ry Rivard: In a coordinated show of frustration led by Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, Democratic lawmakers in New Jersey on Friday lashed out at skyrocketing power bills.
Two former governors resigned in scandal. Now they want to be mayors.

1 month ago | politico.com | Ry Rivard

While both are Democrats, they are likely to benefit from the Donald Trump effect, where expectations around character have been obliterated. For their part, neither campaign is eager to acknowledge the other, but both former governors say they are selling executive experience. McGreevey and Cuomo are both talking about bread-and-butter issues: public safety, clean streets, affordable housing and the menace of e-bikes.