In this webinar, three presenters will share tips and lessons learned on how to use outreach and education to avoid contamination in drop-off and curbside...
This post breaks down how state-level policies passed in 2024 informed ILSR’s 2025 Community Power Scorecard.
On Molokai, a Hawaiian island and community with the highest utility rates in the country, the resident-led Hoʻāhu Energy Cooperative is using its local knowledge...
ILSR’s annual scorecard surveys a suite of 18 state-level policies that help or hinder local clean energy action.
Community composters continue to assert themselves as a growing and integral sector within the composting industry. At the COMPOST2025 Annual Conference and Tradeshow, hosted by...
In this webinar, grassroots leaders discuss how to maximize the benefits of clean energy for communities through local ownership.
On March 4th in Decorah, Iowa, residents will once again cast their ballots on creating a municipal electric utility.
Interviews with solar installers show how inconsistent and resource-intensive local government permitting processes make it harder for Minnesotans to go solar.
SolarShare Wisconsin Cooperative’s model allows anyone in the state to invest in local solar projects.
In this webinar, three food scrap composters share tips and lessons learned about cutting contamination in their finished compost.
Rep. Sarahana Shrestha has a bill, The Hudson Valley Power Authority Act, that would take the privately-owned Central Hudson Gas & Electric public in order...
When Jimmy Carter was president in 1979, one of the two nuclear reactors at the Three Mile Island nuclear complex near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania partially melted...
Mark Ellis spent years as a chief economist and chief of corporate strategy for investor-owned utilities. He now testifies in support of intervenors. Here are...
In 2022, Baltimore’s County Council enacted zoning regulations defining on-farm composting as distinct from landfills and dumps and permitting, by right, on-farm composting facilities.
Anaerobic digestion can harness power from organic waste. But it can also have some negative ecological and health effects.