These are sign on comments by Upgrade Maryland in MD PSC Case No. 9707 regarding long-term planning for Maryland’s gas companies. Upgrade Maryland is urging the commission to protect residential customers from aging and expensive gas lines in the transition to clean and efficient homes and appliances.
Appearing in BBC on Aug. 26, 2025, Miranda Green interviews Karen Lusson, senior attorney at NCLC for coverage of how climate change leads to hotter summer temperatures, breaking global heat records year after year and the health of Americans is at risk as people struggle to afford air conditioning (AC), which can help prevent heat-related illness and death.…
This testimony is in support of Massachusetts legislation to create a state-funded summer cooling program, to help low-income utility consumers pay their home energy and home cooling bills during extreme heat and hot summer months.
This 2025 Massachusetts legislation aims to make energy bills more affordable for consumers. NCLC testifed in support of consumer protections during extreme heat, and protections in the competitive energy supply market. NCLC also explained our concerns with sections on submetering of electricity, and energy bill surcharges to finance energy efficiency and electrification purchases.
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While we identify several ways in which FEMA services could be improved, we urge the Council to retain FEMA’s role and to work to increase its efficiency; moving to a state block-grant model will only further undermine efficient disaster response and recovery at a time when natural disasters are increasing. FEMA remains a lifeline to…
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This is a sign on letter from environmental, labor, consumer and utility customer public interest groups to the White House requesting inclusive representation of climate, labor and consumer advocates in the development of the Administration’s AI Infrastructure priorities and strategies.
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Rooftop solar panels and other renewable energy and energy efficiency products hold great potential to help consumers, ideally by lowering household energy burdens while reducing emissions. The solar panel market is growing at a fast pace and increasilgly expanding into low-income communities, communities of color, and disadvantaged communities. As demand grows for rooftop solar panels,…
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Appearing in NBC News on September 13, 2024, J.J. McCorvey talks to Karen Lusson about increasingly extreme and volatile weather that has turned air conditioning into a more crucial utility for more consumers in different regions of the U.S. Policymakers and utility regulators should look to other contingencies such as implementing seasonal shut-offs protections and…
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The National Consumer Law Center (on behalf of its low-income clients), along with a coalition of over 45 environmental justice and civil rights organizations, submitted a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), calling on the agency to reject a petition filed by Republican attorneys general which would rescind vital Title VI protections. The letter…
Supplemental comments were filed from the Maryland Energy Efficiency Advocates to the Maryland Public Service Commission in response to the commission’s additional questions regarding the design of a low-income affordability mechanism.
Originally appearing in NPR- Philadelphia (KLCC) on August 14, 2024, Jeff Brady interviews NCLC senior attorney Jenifer Bosco in coverage of how customer complaints against the country’s residential rooftop solar industry have increased dramatically in recent years. In online forums like Reddit, there’s a constant stream of complaints and requests for help from dissatisfied residential solar customers. Part of the…
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Originally appearing in NPR on August 14, 2024, Jeff Brady interviews NCLC senior attorney Jenifer Bosco in coverage of the rooftop solar industry and hidden fees and deceptive statements in marketing the financial benefits of solar. Consumer advocates say you should be skeptical of anyone who knocks on your door selling solar. “I wouldn’t sign…
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