DC Consumer Utility Board

10/13/2017

What’s wrong with this picture: DC has a successful baseball team, a supportive, and generous, fan base — yet can’t find $100,000 to keep Metro open for those fans?

Can the Council of DC investigate why DC continues to grant its franchise, name, reputation, and resources on deals where all the benefits are privatized and all the costs are socialized?

If the Nats won’t pay Metro to get their fans home, let them bear the shame. Win or lose, the Washington Nationals’ owners will rake-in revenues from ticket sales, advertising and merchandise.

09/24/2017

When the FCC assumed control over AT&T, Verizon & telecom monopolies, accountability went out the window. Now, Trump’s FCC wants to destroy the accounting rules that can calculate what the Telecom monopolies owe their customers and state and local governments.

Here is the first red flag: The price of the basic AT&T California state utility phone service went up 138% from 2008-2016. Ancillary ser...

09/24/2017

Lovins reminds us that renewable energy is uniquely that—renewable. Fossil and nuclear fuels—expensive and frighteningly harmful. So, let’s build on the former, and use the latter only as necessary.

For more detail on the topics covered in this article, readers should see Amory Lovins’ FERC comments, a recent article on Forbes, and a forthcoming article in The Electricity Journal. In April, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced a... Read More

09/09/2017

Be sure to check out our Active Power Newsletter Summer 2017!

Water, power, light, heat and telecommunications are necessary resources that enable our families to live, prosper and thrive.

04/13/2017

04/13/2017

http://www.dcconsumerutilityboard.org/blog?month=March-2017

Utility Democracy and Justice for All

12/31/2016

CUB Newsletter December Issue

Active Power Newsletter

12/11/2016

See Larry's Blog on DC Consumer Utility Board
http://www.dcconsumerutilityboard.org/blog/

12/11/2016

PR21-1017 Public Service Commission Richard Beverly Confirmation Resolution Of 2016. See http://m.me/dcconsumerutilityboard

10/31/2016

October Newsletter

Active Power Newsletter

09/10/2016

Check out the CUB's new website

When:    Saturday, September 17, 2016, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.Where:    UDC’s David A. Clarke School of Law, Moot Court, 4340 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 5th FloorWho:       First founded in 1978, the CUB is incorporated as a non-profit consumer membership organization committed to educating and organizin...

09/06/2016

Chesapeake Climate Action Network 2016 Climate Champions Award Ceremony

WHEN: Tuesday, September 13th, 7-9 P.M. Doors open at 6:45 P.M.

WHERE: The Great Hall of the Silver Spring Civic Building at 1 Veterans Pl in Silver Spring, MD 20910

REFRESHMENTS: We’ll have delicious finger foods from Gaithersburg-based Spilled Milk Catering, beer from Baltimore-based Raven Beer, mead from Baltimore-based Charm City Meadworks, and wine from Friendsville-based Deep Creek Cellars.

ATTIRE: Cocktail attire suggested.

PARKING: Convenient parking is available at the Town Square Garage directly across from the Civic Building and the Metro is only three blocks away.

TICKETS: Minimum donation of $50 and all the proceeds support CCAN's critical work.

You can purchase your ticket by clicking on this link: http://chesapeakeclimate.org/ccanawards2016.

We hope to see you there!

Mike Tidwell
Executive Director
Chesapeake Climate Action Network

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