Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Policy Engagement Overview: Entergy Corporation (Entergy) engages on US climate policy with mostly negative positions, with evidence of advocacy at the federal level and across several states including Louisiana and Texas. The company strategically advocated against the Biden administration’s power plant carbon standards and has opposed state-level renewable energy policies in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Entergy is a member of several industry groups that strategically oppose US climate policy, including the American Gas Association and the US Chamber of Commerce.
Top-Line Messaging on Climate Policy: Entergy appears generally positive in its top-line messaging on climate policy. The company supported US re-entry into the Paris Agreement in a January 2021 joint letter to the Biden administration. Similarly, in a February 2022 joint letter to Congress, Entergy appeared to support more ambitious action by the federal government to achieve net-zero emissions. However, the company seems to have more limited in its top-line messaging in the 2023-2025 time period.
Engagement with Climate-Related Policy: Entergy demonstrates mostly negative engagement on specific climate-related policies. In a February 2022 joint letter organized by C2ES, the company advocated for the Build Back Better Act’s clean energy tax credits. However, Entergy has been less supportive of other federal and local climate policies: for example, in a series of letters to the New Orleans City Council from April to May 2021, the company advocated for a “technology-neutral” Renewable and Clean Energy Portfolio Standard for the city. More recently, in January 2022 comments with the Class of ‘85 Regulatory Response Group, Entergy appeared to take a negative position on the federal methane standards. Although Entergy stated support for a price on carbon, cap-and-trade frameworks, and energy efficiency initiatives in its 2021 CDP report, InfluenceMap was unable to locate recent evidence of continued, positive advocacy on these topics.
Positioning on Energy Transition: Entergy appears to engage with a mix of positive and negative positions on the energy transition, with more recent engagement demonstrating increasingly negative advocacy. At the federal level, the company strategically opposed the Biden administration’s power plant carbon standards: in addition to its individual August 2023 comments in opposition to the proposal’s ambition, it signed unsupportive comments with the Midcontinent Power Sector Collaborative and oppositional comments with the Class of '85 Regulatory Response Group (Class of ‘85); Entergy reiterated its opposition to the rules in Class of ‘85 comments that were submitted during the December 2023 supplemental comment period. The company also pushed back on the National Environmental Policy Act Phase 2 revisions, submitting September 2023 comments with the Cross-Cutting Issues Group that criticized the consideration of climate and justice effects in review processes and appeared to advocate for the long-term role of fossil gas. Previously, in an April 2023 joint letter, Entergy advocated to weaken the Inflation Reduction Act’s clean hydrogen tax credit by calling for annual matching requirements, in lieu of hourly matching. In February 2025, subsidiary Entergy Texas signed a joint letter to Congress that defended the hydrogen tax credit while emphasizing a prominent role for fossil gas as an eligible feedstock.
Industry Association Governance: Entergy provides limited transparency of its indirect engagement on climate policy through industry associations. The company discloses some of its industry association memberships on its corporate website, however it does not include details on each organization’s climate change policy positions. In its 2023 CDP report, Entergy provided more detail on its involvement with industry associations including Edison Electric Institute (EEI) and the US Chamber of Commerce, but did not disclose its membership to the American Gas Association (AGA). Both US Chamber and AGA continue to obstruct US climate policy, while EEI legally challenged the Biden administration’s finalized power plant carbon standards.
InfluenceMap collects and assesses evidence of corporate climate policy engagement on a weekly basis, depending on the availability of information from each specific data source (for more information see our methodology). While this analysis flows through to the company’s scores each week, the summary above is updated periodically. This summary was last updated in Q2 2025.