State regulators are setting utility profit rates too high, allowing utilities to overcharge customers by billions in order to overpay their investors.

A tool to help consumers, reporters, and policymakers explore the effect of utility profit rates on electricity bills. Select a state, and either enter or select your monthly bill amount to calculate ...

Looking to compost at home? Check out this complete guide and get started making black gold in your own backyard. Compost improves soil, protects the climate, and builds community resilience. And ...

There arguably has never been a better time to consider how to grow food and compost at home — it’s an opportunity to support healthy local soils and protect local food production and distribution.

A network of community composters building the movement by connecting early adopters, spreading lessons learned, and inspiring new operations. The Community Composter Coalition is a network of ...

New York is facing an affordability crisis rooted in a deeper problem: too many essential systems are controlled by distant corporations. This has left residents with high grocery and energy costs, ...

Click on image to download the fact sheet. As lawmakers have grown increasingly serious about addressing Amazon’s harms, Amazon has sought to portray itself as beneficial to independent small ...

AI technology and large language models are growing in popularity. Also growing is the technology’s detrimental effect on the environment. Each query into ChatGPT, to use one example, requires ...

ILSR has conducted a sweeping investigation that reveals Amazon has quietly become a major force in how cities, counties, and school districts purchase basic supplies — and that its tightening grip is ...

Chain dollar stores are inundating America’s communities. In both small towns and urban neighborhoods, they are edging out locally owned businesses, freezing out entrepreneurs, and shifting profits ...

A year after a group of local broadband champions got together to see how they could improve Internet access in Missoula, Montana, the Missoula Valley Internet Cooperative has successfully raised ...

Rooftop solar saved not just panel owners, but all California customers $2.3 billion on utility bills in 2024, according to a blockbuster new report. The study found that the rooftop panels saved ...