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A Bill of Rights To Keep Utilities From Penalizing Solar Customers
Duke Energy, the largest investor-owned electric utility in the U.S., wants to charge customers in South Carolina more for using less energy. Duke is asking state regulators for permission to more than triple the flat monthly charge – what customers pay...
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EWG Joins ‘Green New Deal’ Coalition To Push for 100 Percent Renewables by 2035
The Green New Deal legislation coming before Congress should commit to transitioning the entire U.S. electricity grid to 100 percent renewable energy sources no later than 2035, said Environmental Working Group.
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Is 100 Percent Renewable Energy for the U.S. Possible? Yes.
Across America, devastating hurricanes, hellish wildfires, deadly heat waves and other disasters have brought the climate change crisis close to home. In response, more than 100 cities, counties and states – including the two largest, California...
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Recent Federal and State Policy Stories:
- Duke-Backed Bill That Could Jack Up Rates for NC Ratepayers Passes State Senate
- Trump Can’t Kill Wind Power
- Two Big Steps Toward Meeting Our Climate Pledge
- Trump and Big Oil Want To Pull the Plug on the Electric Car Market
- A Bill of Rights To Keep Utilities From Penalizing Solar Customers
- Report: Trump To Call for 70 Percent Cut in Renewable Energy Funding
- Why an ‘All of the Above’ Energy Policy Is Wrong for Fighting Climate Change
- EWG Joins ‘Green New Deal’ Coalition To Push for 100 Percent Renewables by 2035
- Why Does the Energy Department Downplay the Future of Renewables?
- Is 100 Percent Renewable Energy for the U.S. Possible? Yes.
- Homes That Make More Energy Than They Use Quickly Pay Back Added Costs
- Not-So-Smart ALEC: Right-Wing Policy Group’s Opposition to Climate Action Drives Away Corporate Members
- FERC Nominee Who Slammed Renewable Energy, Pushed Coal Bailout Narrowly Passes Senate
- Trump Says He’ll Save Coal Power Plants, But Even Utilities Know He’s Blowing Smoke
- Clean Energy Jobs in Great Lakes Outnumber Jobs in Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Energy by More Than 4 to 1
- Trump’s Coal Bailout, Repeal of Clean Power Plan Would Bring Early Death to Many Americans
- U.S. Regulators Again Reject Trump Scheme to Bail Out Failing Coal and Nuclear Plants
- Trump’s Bailout of Coal and Nuclear Plants Could Cause Thousands of Early Deaths, Send Utility Bills Soaring
- Solar and Wind Subsidies Are a Clear Success. The Coal and Nuclear Industries Just Aren’t Ready to Admit It.
- Despite Federal Roadblocks, States and Cities Lead on Solar Power