Stop Utility Greed!
Utility corporations are using your dollars to increase their power to block clean energy development and lobby for policies that serve their interests, not the consumers.
You deserve justice, equity, and fairness when it comes to basic needs like natural gas and electricity services.
Old Laws = Unfair Practices
When your electric utility wants to increase charges to customers, it typically must make a case before the state utility commission. On approval, customers have no choice but to pay this new rate. In many states, outdated laws and regulations provide little or no transparency in the utility’s justification for the increase or how the funds you are required to pay are being used.
Stacking the Deck Against the Consumer
- Funding advocacy campaigns and lobbying politicians and regulators to influence favorable policies to keep their stranglehold on the energy market.
- Preventing clean and renewable energy technologies and competitors from entering the marketplace to guarantee they are paid to build new assets and offer these programs.
- Leveraging ratepayer dollars to fund public relations campaigns and charitable giving – activities that should come from the company’s bottom line, not customers.
- Pressing low-income ratepayers and communities of color with excessive bills and threats of service cutoffs.
- Pushing for rate increase approvals from the very entities they are funding politically.
Utility Walk of Shame Highlights
The stories of the fox guarding the henhouse mount daily.
Ohio ratepayers paying $500,000 a day for subsidies despite indictments of former FirstEnergy executives in a $60 million bribery scheme.
Fight for Justice & Accountability
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New legislation or regulations have been introduced at the state and federal level to:
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Stop utilities from using ratepayer money for political activities and corporate gains
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Provide transparency on how utilities are spending your money
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Require states to hold them accountable by imposing hefty fines for violations and taking advantage of loopholes
Take Action!
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