Sierra Club – Haley Barbour Fails to Disclose Lobbying Ties to Southern Company, Kemper Plant

Haley Barbour Fails to Disclose Lobbying Ties to Southern Company, Kemper Plant

JACKSON, MS–(ENEWSPF)–December 10, 2012. A new report from the Mississippi Sierra Club has revealed that former Governor Haley Barbour has failed to disclose his financial ties to corporate giant Southern Company, parent company of Mississippi Power (MPCO). In recent public statements the former Governor has lent his support to the experimental and controversial Kemper County Coal Plant. Two weeks after his term as Governor ended in January 2012, Barbour rejoined his Washington, D.C., lobbying firm, Barbour, Griffith, and Rogers (BGR), and resumed actively lobbying for Southern Company again. According to filings with the United States Senate Office of