Over the past few months, many DC residents have opened their utility bills to find shocking increases—sometimes rising by hundreds of dollars.
I'm introducing emergency legislation to temporarily pause electricity shutoffs as regulators review the legality of these increases.
🚨 🚨 We released a new report on how electric utilities are falling behind, or altogether abandoning, their emission reduction goals that were promised to customers and investors. Read the full report here: https://t.co/la4Ov4VaSQ
Wahab asks if the CPUC considers PG&Es profits in its rate setting process.
"What is PG&E's pay when you're considering this?"
"The ratepayers are not a bank," Wahab said. "Ratepayers are being treated as an endless bucket of money."
Did your state pass or fail? ILSR's 2025 Community Power Scorecard grades all 50 states on their support of local #CleanEnergy action and resistance to utility #monopoly power. https://t.co/1HtJAlavOi #energytwitter
There is always endless money to bomb people, but not for clean water, health care, and housing. Our elected officials are choosing another record-breaking Pentagon budget when it can't even pass an audit. I'm sick of it.
This bill goes a long way toward justice for the thousands of Californians who are disconnected from life-saving electricity every month. The bill reins in corporate utility greed— the main source of unaffordable utility bills, devastating wildfires, and deadly air pollution!
State Senator Dr. Aisha Wahab introduced SB 332 - the Investor-Owned Utilities Accountability Act. Read more here: https://t.co/IaUB8UvYeG
#powertothepeople#caleg
The Pentagon budget is approaching $1,000,000,000,000. It just failed its SEVENTH audit in a row. If Musk truly wanted to root out waste and corruption, instead of just torching the programs working people rely on, they would have started with the Pentagon.
These exploitative tactics result in massive profits for utility companies. American families have a right to electricity and deserve a utility system predicated on affordability, equity, and climate resilience—instead, they're captive to a system that puts profit over people!
The fossil-fuel-captured utility industry shamelessly thrusts its customers onto the frontlines of the climate catastrophe and into the depths of energy poverty to make a quick buck! Read the latest report by @CenterforBioDiv to learn more ➡️ https://t.co/xrBDsZnutC
These utilities have shamelessly pursued at least $3.5 billion in rate increase from 2023 through 2027—skyrocketing energy bills will trap even more families in a dangerous web of debt and energy poverty.
@CarborroGov is spearheading an unprecedented effort to hold .@DukeEnergy accountable for spreading climate denialism and delaying the transition away from fossil fuels! The struggle against corporate greed and deception starts at the local level https://t.co/IEnuESZhXZ
BREAKING: NC Town @CarrboroGov sued @DukeEnergy for decades of deceiving the public about the dangers of burning fossil fuels. This is the nation's first-ever climate deception lawsuit challenging an electric utility. #DukeEnergyKnew
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