Utilities often oppose customer-driven, third-party-owned energy projects like community solar because they threaten to supplant utility investments and utility shareholder profits.
The Federal Trade Commission found that big retailers threatened to punish suppliers unless they got first dibs on food and household goods.
A federal affordable Internet program is ending. But muni-owned broadband networks have figured out how to deliver affordable high-speed Internet access themselves.
Stacy Mitchell defends the FTC blocking the Kroger-Albertsons merger citing grocery market concentration already causing skyrocketing food prices.
“The outsized power of big retailers is damaging the entire food system,” said Stacy Mitchell, co-executive director at ILSR.
Evan Malmgreno covers Tribes using federal grants to create their own Internet providers, and how it takes more than money to get a community online.
Karl Ebert cites the ILSR Community Solar Tracker to contextualize the debate in Wisconsin over community solar programs.
Clare Miflin and Samantha MacBride use ILSR's Community Composter Census to contrast the rise of community composting programs with Mayor Adams' proposed budget cuts.
Madyson Fitzgerald writes about the Native nations successfully developing their own infrastructure for better internet, as detailed in a 2021 ILSR report.
Aallyah Wright uses data from ILSR's Affordable Connectivity Program dashboard to highlight the disparities in Internet access.
Sean Gonsalves writes in The American Prospect how the $65 billion moon shot to bring every American affordable broadband is failing low-income communities of color.
John Farrell argues that the profit motives and shareholder allegiance of Xcel energy requires skepticism of their community solar claims.
Investor-owned utilities have been at the forefront of numerous political scandals and ecological disasters. There is an alternative.
A major shift is afoot in the federal government’s stance on big business. The US Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission’s draft merger guidelines represent...
Small fishermen in the Pacific Northwest are taking a stand against Pacific Seafood, the dominant West Coast crab processor, alleging that the corporation is exploiting...