Tag: Energy
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Working towards energy affordability in rural America
If you live in the United States, there is a one-in-eight chance that you own your electric utility. That is to say that there’s a one-in-eight chance that your electric utility has a similar structure to a credit union or food cooperative. And if you are one of the many millions of residents who pay…
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WATCH: Getting out the Native Vote to indigenize energy sovereignty
Whether it’s the environmental and health effects of nuclear mining in Diné (Navajo) territory, the bitter contentions around the Dakota Access Pipeline in the tribal territory of the Standing Rock Sioux, or the mining for copper on a sacred Apache site, it is clear that there have long been troubling issues at the nexus of…
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Building a just energy future together: Join the REC Co-lab this March
It’s 2025. That fact alone is a lot to deal with in the United States, especially for those who understand the urgent imperative to transition to a just, democratic, and inclusive energy system, powered by clean, renewable energy. With the current administration ideologically committed to toxic and inefficient forms of energy of the past—fossil fuels…
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How Inclusive Utility Investments bring the energy transition to rural residents
As a society, we find ourselves in a situation sometimes described as a polycrisis, where social, ecological, and economic issues create challenging and mutually reinforcing synergies, making it difficult to address any problem in isolation. For working people, the imminent need for a clean energy transition might seem like it has to take a backseat…
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Rural Power Coalition: 2024 Year in Review
2024 was yet another monumental year in the fight for the future of Rural Electric Cooperatives. The Rural Power Coalition dedicated its work to ensuring that the federal funding provided in the Inflation Reduction Act for Rural Electric Co-ops (RECs) will truly benefit member-owners and the rural communities in which co-ops reside. New federal investments…