Are Your Gas Bills Paying for the Campaign Against Banning Gas?
National Fuel customers paid for a website directing New Yorkers to oppose electrification mandates, documents show.
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New York state regulators opened an investigation into National Fuel lobbying in March, spurred by New York Focus’s reporting.
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