Open government and transparency are essential pillars of a functioning democracy. But when governments privatize public services and infrastructure, we too often lose access to information and the tools to hold officials accountable.
If these barriers are overcome and municipal wastewater and electric utilities collaborate and coordinate their efforts, what's the potential?
One would think New York City officials would at least require detailed safety studies before allowing the new 30-inch line. Nope!
The President's speech last week contained more discussion of climate and energy than any State of the Union speech in recent memory -- perhaps ever. Congressional action is still needed right away to reduce uncertainty and improve our chances of meeting climate targets.
At Clean Water Action, we believe strength is built on grassroots power. Together with our friends at ADP and the Green Justice Coalition, we have this to say: Power on. Power Forward.
Utilities, smart meter manufacturing companies and the government all tout the need for implementation of smart meters and smart metering equipment. Unfortunately these initiatives are bound to fail for two reasons.
As technology has evolved, so should our expectations about how Congress and state legislatures can advance civic values and consumer interests by facilitating people banding together in effective citizen groups.
The absolute paralysis that our economy and our country experiences during these prolonged and widespread outages exposes an extreme vulnerability.
Kushnick's Law states: "A regulated company will always renege on promises to provide public benefits tomorrow in exchange for regulatory and financia...
FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- Five days after Hurricane Sandy slammed into his neighborhood, Ned Paul sifted through wet piles of garbage on his front lawn. On ...
NEW YORK -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo lashed out on Monday at the utility companies who still have hundreds of thousands of customers without heat and light m...
With Hurricane Sandy hurtling toward the Mid Atlantic, utilities up and down the East Coast have put thousands of power line workers and tree-cutting ...
If there was ever a time for consumers to get serious about conserving energy, it's now.
A different approach to quantifying the very real value of going solar would be wise. At the very least, solar companies should jettison the practice of using past rate increases to predict the future, something that is far too common these days.
NEW YORK — Consolidated Edison closed walk-in centers, suspended meter readings and limited work on major construction projects in New York on S...
That's right. Romney and Inhofe would rather let big polluters off the hook than protect our kids from a toxin that causes developmental delays and other serious conditions. So do the 46 Senators who voted on Wednesday to block the mercury and air toxin standards.
Americans are behind Obama, in the sense that they support the president's concept of a national clean energy standard. But they're also behind, in the sense that the voting public is unwilling to go as far as the president wants to go because of costs.
You work hard every day, doing everything you can to bring more bacon home, and trim the fat from your spending. But it still isn’t enough. If...
Residents of one New Mexico city are in danger of having their utilities shut off if they don't pay tickets for running red lights. The city of Las...
The few that opened almost broke the financial backs of the utilities that built them -- forcing 25 to 50 percent rate increases on customers. And when the new plants didn't materialize, and wind and natural gas got cheap, the utilities who, after all, are businessmen, not coal miners, simply dumped the dirty black rock.
New research concludes we've got space to store carbon, but other issues remain.
Within the next decade, 100 million Americans in the nation's largest cities will be able to get cheaper electricity from their own rooftop -- without subsidies -- than from their electric utility, according to a new report.
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Roots of mighty oaks push up through New Orleans sidewalks while trees in the metropolis often tower above nearby buildings. Nearly half of Louisiana, in fact, is covered with forests, and the southern U.S. as a whole is considered the nation's wood basket.
Reporters Bob Porterfield and Jackie Ginley are exploring the financial challenges facing Hercules for The Huffington Post and Hercules Patch. Read th...
