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As consumers face persistently high and rising energy costs and financial stress, a substantial share of what they pay for electricity is flowing to investors as profit.

Nevada gas utility Southwest Gas (SWG) has not provided sufficient information or analysis in its inaugural long-term resource plan to ensure the utility is proposing the most cost-effective options for its customers, Nevada advocates and state officials are saying. Intervenors who are critical of the resource plan include Nevada’s Bureau of Consumer Protection (BCP) and...

Peoples Gas, the Chicago-based gas utility, has settled a discrimination lawsuit alleging that it engaged in systemic race discrimination against Black employees and customers through fostering a hostile work environment, discriminatory job and territory assignment, discriminatory overtime and pay, discriminatory performance and discipline practices, and retaliation. Eleven former and current employees of the gas utility...

One Maricopa County, Arizona, landowner appears to have gamed the land-based voting rules of Salt River Project (SRP), the large Arizona electric utility, in a way that enabled him to almost single-handedly decide the outcome of an election for a seat on that utility’s board of governance in 2024.  Public records show that the landowner,...