Uh oh. It seems outside groups supporting Kay Hagan can’t follow the laws; not even Federal election laws.

A green-energy group apparently violated federal election rules with television ads touting Sen. Kay Hagan before her May 6 Democratic primary win, an open government advocate says.

The Sunlight Foundation, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit, says the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy didn’t report its spending for the ads to the Federal Election Commission.

The Knoxville, Tenn.-based alliance has an Asheville office.

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“Any ads that ran within the electioneering window were run in error,” an alliance spokeswoman, Jennifer Rennicks, said by email. “We are taking this very seriously, and we’re examining what may have happened to determine our next course of action.”

If you can’t count on an environmental “green” group to follow the law, who can you trust really?