An energy regulatory decision today could carve out the path for fully renewable energy in America, by attacking the central challenge of transmission capacity.
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Posted inEnergy and the Environment
On the Chopping Block: California’s Climate Program for Low-Income Housing
California will pilot a program to reduce climate emissions from buildings without displacing tenants. Facing a deficit, Gov. Newsom proposes slashing its budget by a third.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Maine Tries to Take Back Its Utilities
A ballot measure would convert two investor-owned power companies into a public nonprofit. Unionized utility workers aren’t sold.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Energy Insufficiency
With a mission to create green jobs and bring green-energy loans to the poor, BlocPower has gained powerful backers in tech, finance, and government. Where are the results?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
How Private Monopolies Fuel Climate Disaster and Public Corruption
Investor-owned utilities have been at the forefront of numerous political scandals and ecological disasters. There is an alternative.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Gringo Go Home! Puerto Rico Is Not for Sale!
U.S. colonialism and rentier capitalism are wreaking havoc on Puerto Rico.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
It’s All the Same Fight
Reflections on a week in the age of corporate power
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
How New York’s Democratic Socialists Brought Unions Around to Public Renewables
State lawmakers worked hard to convince utilities and construction union members that they would not end up on the chopping block.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Congress Short-Circuits the Electric Grid
It’s bad enough not to get a clean debt bill, but it’s worse to impede electric transmission issues as part of the bargain.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Small Business Rises Up Against ‘the Robbery’ in Greece
Eye-popping power bills have devastated midsized companies across Europe. But thanks to a sadistic EU energy privatization regimen called the Target Model, no one has been hit harder than Greece.