Consolidated Edison

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<a href="http://legiscan.com/CA/sponsors/AB2145/2013">http://legiscan.com/CA/sponsors/AB2145/2013</a>  S Bradford

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Incredibly, a harmful bill in the state legislature is only two steps away from becoming law. Assembly Bill 2145 could stop cities from being able to meet their climate action goals and prevent you and local businesses from paying less for electricity.

<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://act.credoaction.com/call/save_community_choice_2_copy/" style=" text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">Please call your Senator today and tell them to Vote NO on AB 2145.</a>

Authored by a former Southern California Edison executive,  AB 2145 makes Community Choice energy programs harder to form and more costly and bureaucratic to operate. T he sole purpose of this bill is to derail the growing Community Choice movement.   Community Choice programs are allowing cities around California to make decisions to increase the amount of renewable, clean energy in their electricity making a big stride forward on addressing climate change and protecting our future.

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<p class="yiv2793388643MsoNormal" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; outline: none; display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thanks to Community Choice, ratepayers in the Marin program will save $5.9 M this year while getting electricity with more than twice the renewable energy content as PG&E's standard residential mix.

Community Choice could help cities reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly. But despite the opposition of over 150 groups and cities, this bad bill has continued to advance.

Consumers and business should have a choice. This bill solves no problems and does nothing good. It's solely focused on harassing and limiting Community Choice programs.

In 2010, PG&E poured $46 M into Prop 16, a measure designed to make it harder for communities to form Community Choice energy programs. They outspent opponents 500:1, but the measure failed—and then PG&E outrageously attempted to recoup its campaign expenses from ratepayers.

Foiled at the ballot box, this is the latest attempt by the monopoly utilities to attack Community Choice energy programs. Don't let them succeed.

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Con Edison

New York's energy company is in the headlines right now for its lockout of 8,500 skilled workers, the folks who keep the city's power grid running and keep the air conditioning flowing during record heat. “And they say we have to cut costs, to keep the stock profitable... They don't answer to us, they don't answer to the customers out on the street,” a Con Edison mechanic told <a href="http://www.alternet.org/labor/156145/conedison_puts_new_york%27s_power_at_risk_during_heat_wave_with_lockout_of_workers/?page=2">AlterNet's Michelle Chen</a>.

But that's not Con Ed's only labor problem. The company's cleaning crew and security contractors make as little as $8 an hour, according to <a href="http://unitedny.org/files/2012/07/The-Economic-Low-Road-Low-Wage-Workers-and-the-1-Percenters.pdf">United NY and ALIGN's report</a>. Meanwhile, Con-Ed's president and CEO, Kevin Burke, made nearly $11 million last year, the equivalent of $5,272 per hour. The report notes:

In other words, a cleaner making $8.00 per hour would need to work 659 hours or 16.5 weeks to earn what Burke makes per hour. Burke received an increase in 2011 of $688,653, which alone equals the annual wages of 41 cleaners earning $8 hourly.

Instead of an increase like Burke received, contracted cleaners at Con Ed’s headquarters recently had their salaries cut from as little as $9 to $8.50 per hour. Instead of ensuring that their contracted workers are making enough money to support their families, Con Ed has been rewarding its CEO enough to enable him to maintain at least three homes – a Westhampton Beach, NY home worth nearly $1 million, an Upper East Side apartment worth $1.5 million, and a house that he bought for $2.3 million in 2011 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

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Con Edison made over $1 billion in profits last year—and spent $2 million lobbying over the last two years, in part against a law that would've required it to pay those contracted low-wage workers a decent living.

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a profit upkeep comission dk johnston borrowd the phrase: con ed, hmo lawyer and 

----dr robert harris biz school dumb to raise rates if caps lifted then they did   Fine Print guy  CA