2025 Consumer Protection Federal Priorities
NCLC will pursue common-sense regulatory and legislative reforms to ensure fairness, fight fraud, and protect consumers in 2025.
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Maryland Energy Efficiency Advocates' Comments on the Revised EmPOWER MD 2024-2026 Program Plans
These comments from the Maryland Energy Efficiency Advocates' Coalition include recommendations to ensure a stakeholder process for electrification and keeping low-income incentives with the state agencies that administer a suite of low-income energy efficiency programs.
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Consumer Advocates' Letter to CFPB Regarding Rooftop Solar Panel Sales Concerns
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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Community Solar: Expanding Access and Safeguarding Low-Income Families
This webinar will center the interests of low-income consumers and the need to increase access to solar that can reduce the energy burden for those most vulnerable and tackle climate change.
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Grist: This tweak to mortgage rules could save homeowners thousands in energy bills
Appearing in Grist on September 23, 2024, Tik Root interviewed NCLC senior attorney Alys Cohen for coverage of how lawmakers recently demanded action from the Federal Housing Finance Agency after months of debating adopting a minimum energy efficiency standard for new homes. “Energy poverty is a real problem. It doesn’t make sense to keep building…
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MassLive: Time for Mass. to gear up for ‘summer preparedness’ (Viewpoint)
Winter preparedness is embedded in the Massachusetts way of life, but over the past few years it has become clear that policymakers and residents aren’t prepared for the new reality of summer in the Bay State.
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Coalition Letter to CFPB and FTC Regarding Tariffed On-Bill Financing (TOB)
This letter from 27 groups urges the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to issue guidance on Inclusive Utility Investment (IUI)/Tariffed On-Bill Financing/Pay As You Save (PAYS) (referred to jointly as “TOB”) loans. These products are growing substantially in the market and, without clear consumer protections, pose significant challenges to consumers’…
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Maryland Energy Efficiency Advocates Supplemental Comments Re: Low-Income Affordability Mechanism
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.
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How and When to Raise E-Sign Issues in Solar Cases
This virtual training features NCLC's Margot Saunders and Tom Domonoske of Consumer Litigation Associates.
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NPR: Rooftop solar has a fraud problem. The industry is working to build back trust
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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NPR: Thinking about rooftop solar? 4 things to consider and how to protect yourself
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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New Initiatives Empower Consumers Seeking Solar Power
Advocates Applaud New Materials about Financing Solar Projects and Avoiding Scams and Look Forward to Robust Action from Federal Agencies to Protect Consumers
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