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Utilities Don't Want You to Know This Reason Why Your Power Bills Are So Expensive
Utilities are trying to keep your power bills sky-high. They are spending millions on anti-climate lobbying, and passing off the costs to you—the customer—via your monthly bill.
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The 9th Circuit's Ruling on Gas Bans Stinks. Here's How We Decarbonize Buildings Anyway.
In a blow to climate and public health advocates, right-wing judges knocked down Berkeley’s landmark gas ban. But there are still many opportunities for states and local governments to take action to cut climate pollution from our buildings.
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What Is Air Permitting? Here’s Why Reforming It Is Key for Decarbonization.
Within the Clean Air Act sits unclear guidance documents that are preventing the law from working as intended. To bring clean air to communities and decarbonize our economy, we need to reform air permitting. Here’s how—in five steps.
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What You Need to Know About the Pause on New LNG Projects
The Biden administration took a stand against the fossil fuel industry by pausing the approval of new gas export licenses to take a deeper look at how to account for harms to the public interest. Here’s what that decision means and what must come next.
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How States Are Centering Workers in the Clean Energy Transition
States are leading the way on a transition to clean energy and building strong labor standards into their plans—ensuring clean energy jobs are good ones.
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Your Energy Bill Is Likely Funding Climate Opposition. New Legislation Could Change That in California.
California has an opportunity to maintain its history of climate leadership. Get the scoop on a new bill to hold gas and electric utilities—and their trade groups—accountable to their customers, not fossil fuel interests.
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Republicans Are Trying to Burn It Down, Literally: Defending Climate Progress in 2024
Americans deserve a commander-in-chief with a strong climate track record and can meet the moment.
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How Michigan Set Itself on the Fast Track to Clean Energy
Michigan just passed one of the country’s most ambitious climate and clean energy packages. Evergreen spoke to Sen. Sam Singh and Angana Shah to better understand what’s in these bills, how they got it done, and where Michigan is going next.
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The Biggest Public Utility in the U.S. Is Also One of the Dirtiest. Let’s Fix It.
The federal government runs the biggest public power company in the country, the Tennessee Valley Authority. It’s also one of the dirtiest. President Biden can use executive power to change that.
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Finishing the First Term Strong: Biden’s Climate To Do List
President Biden ran and won on climate. But there are still promises left unfulfilled. Here is what needs to happen in this important last year of his first term.
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