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Bill Prindle's avatar

Well said.

This also true for clean energy and climate change, which has been my field for 50 years. During the 1980s, states invented Integrated Resource Planning to force utilities to consider energy efficiency and renewables. In the 90s, they made utilities spend billions on efficiency programs. When deregulation took the wind out of those efforts, they created renewable and efficiency standards requiring utilities to acquire clean resources. In the last 20 years, some half of the states have enacted climate action plans. These latest federal rollbacks, which happened also under Reagan and Bush II, are just the latest impetus for states (and also local governments) to step up.

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Suzanne Crockett's avatar

James, I live in Florida and at age 72 am on SocSec and Medicare. If/when those are cut… it’s hopeless

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