Meg Hassett
@MegToDiffer
Supporting utility regulation in Central states @AdvEnergyUnited. @NRDC, @UCSUSA, @ElectILSenDems, @Energy_Leaders alum. Tweets my own.
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Rate of Return Equals Cost of Capital: A Simple, Fair Formula to Stop Investor-Owned Utilities From Overcharging the Public economicliberties.us/our-work/rate-… via @Econliberties
Stunning stat: 2,860 Chicago pedestrians & cyclists ages 1 to 19 have been hit by cars since 2021. Here's the hotspot map in @chicagotribune on where these crashes occur:
Can Chicago make its streets safe for students to walk and bike to school? A look at pedestrian and cyclist safety for students from @SeraMak chicagotribune.com/2025/01/13/chi…
6 Via RideSmarts on my walk home 7pm on a Tuesday. One of the most walkable neighborhoods in Chicago. 2 students called one from yoga. My least favorite security theater = creating gas-powered car dependence. @UChicago should invest in real transportation & real safety vs 🚗🚗🚗
MISO's Board approved a historic regional transmission portfolio: "MISO's process is entirely replicable & grid operators can incorporate their own regional needs into planning process updates required under a recent federal directive." -@TedThomasENRGZ utilitydive.com/news/midwest-m…
A 1,070-MW coal plant, once slated for retirement by 2023 and now the #9 largest GHG polluter in Indiana, appears to be on the verge of executing a long-term agreement to sell a majority of its energy and capacity to an unnamed data center developer.
A Michigan utility buys power from 1950s-era coal plants whose largest owner happens to be its parent company. It's a bad deal for the power company's customers, consumer watchdogs and enviro groups say. mlive.com/environment/20…
BREAKING NEWS: MISO's Board of Directors approved the Tranche 2.1 transmission portfolio. The portfolio includes 24 high-voltage transmission lines that are projected to deliver at least $23.1 billion in net benefits over the first 20 years of service.
Private jet trips. Massages. Professional sport games. Not the perks of being a millionaire, but instead an executive or staff member at some of the top utilities across the country. And customers are paying the price. New report from EPI: energyandpolicy.org/report-utility…
This actually happens a lot in Chicago because the city departments don’t communicate with each other and aldermanic menu money is spent independently of citywide infrastructure planning.
Here's a small but visible example of waste in Chicago. Just 8-9 weeks ago, a crew poured a new sidewalk all the way down the 3400 block of Belmont Avenue. Then in the last week or so, that brand new sidewalk got ripped up again. (Left photo: August 7. Right photo: today.)
"As families make tough choices between paying the power bill or buying groceries, there are mandates and market manipulations keeping expensive coal online and consumers paying the price. - Bishop Marcia Dinkins, @BLAC_Appalachia utilitydive.com/news/pjm-capac…
Horrifying. The first photo is verified fatalities in residential buildings by age and gender since 10/7/23 and the second is prior conflicts. When ages 0-4, 5-9, and 10-14 are on the bottom of a graph of fatalities, it shouldn’t actually be a pyramid! ohchr.org/sites/default/…
On the bright side, the sanctuary districts in Star Trek led to the Bell riots, which were some A+ episodes of Deep Space 9.
I do think at some point, as a journalist, it’s your responsibility to read between the lines a little bit
If you want to call me a lefty for thinking my community deserves to drink clean water, go ahead. If you want to say I'm a progressive for saying polluters should pay to clean up their mess, feel free. I don't give a sh*t about labels. I care about delivering for my…
I called on the CEO of our billion-dollar utility monopoly to resign, and we forced them to pay back customers over $60M. I went after the Wall Street speculators driving up the price of housing. I built a coalition to push my bill to stop Big Pharma from ripping off families.
I put affordability front and center every day. Most importantly, I told folks exactly who it was that was ripping them off, and I grounded it locally. It's the billionaires and big corporations making record-breaking profits while the rest of us struggle.
During the 1st Trump era, I - flipped a State Senate seat in Illinois, helping to deliver a trifecta that enshrined abortion rights - worked w/ amazing coalitions in IL and Minnesota building power to pass bold 100% clean electricity policies We can still do good the next 4 yrs
The Biden admin has 74 critical days to lock in as much climate progress as possible. Here are 3 steps they must take before handing over the White House. evergreenaction.com/blog/the-clima…
Trump balling out with his bros Netanyahu, Putin, and Orbán, circa 2025
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