Advocacy

LPPC Comments on EPA's Proposed Revisions to the Effluent Limitations Guidelines Rule

The Environmental Regulations Task Force submitted detailed comments to EPA supporting proposed revisions to the Clean Water Act Effluent Limitations Guidelines (ELG) for coal-fired power plants

LPPC Supports Bipartisan Fix Our Forests Act to Protect Electric Infrastructure and Reduce Wildfire Risk

The Large Public Power Council (LPPC), which represents 29 of the nation's largest not-for-profit public power utilities, welcomes and supports the Fix Our Forests Act (S. 1462), which...

Issue Breakdown: Fixing EPA’s Phase I Carbon Rule to Power Growth and Integrate Renewables

The U.S. grid is entering an unprecedented era of growth. After two decades of flat demand, electricity use is now climbing sharply as data centers, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, and electrification take off...

LPPC Signs onto Letter Urging Congress to Reauthorize CISA 2015

The Large Public Power Council (LPPC), which represents 29 of the largest not-for-profit public power utilities in the U.S., signed onto a letter this week...

Grid Reliability, Retirements, and New Entry to Meet AI and Load Growth Leavebehind

LPPC's September 2025 leavebehind was initially prepared for a meeting with the Department of Energy, responding to DOE's July 2025 grid reliability report.

LPPC Comments on EPA's Proposed MATS Rule Amendments

LPPC's Environmental Task Force submitted comments to EPA supporting proposed amendments to the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS)

LPPC Comments on 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards: Phase 1 Achievability Concerns

LPPC Supports Legislation to Restore Tax-Exempt Advance Refunding for Municipal Bonds

LPPC supports the introduction of Representative David Kustoff (R-TN), Rudy Yakym (R-IN), Gwen Moore (D-WI), and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA)'s Investing in Our Communities Act. This legislation will restore tax-exempt advance refunding for municipal bonds, enabling public power utilities to build and maintain...

LPPC Provides Comments to Treasury on Clean Energy Tax Credits

On December 23, 2022, LPPC provided the U.S. Department of the Treasury with comments on the clean energy tax provisions included in...

LPPC Issues Joint Statement Regarding FERC’s Proposed Rule on Transmission Planning

Since FERC issued its Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking several months ago, we have been working together on a set of common principles...