Power Corrupts: Cleaning Up America's Biggest Industry

An investigation into the corruption of the electric industry and its role in polluting our planet.

Electric utilities have faced a few scandals over the past century or so, but corruption is growing as the power industry's conventional business model is falling apart. Modern technologies challenge their monopoly mindsets and outmoded generators. Threatened utilities, in turn, gun for taxpayer- and ratepayer-funded subsidies, which they increasingly seek through fraud-filled, underhanded sch...