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The Hidden Costs of Eliminating Energy Tax Credits
April 28, 2025
Though they may not realize it, the 30 million customers of our country’s largest public power utilities could face significantly higher electric bills if federal energy tax policies change. Demand for energy is surging. According to an analysis from Brattle Group, the U.S. will need 50% more energy by 2035...
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Public Utilities Would Feel Pain if Muni Tax Exemption Goes
March 31, 2025
Higher borrowing costs would force publicly-owned utility providers to raise rates or delay critical infrastructure, advocates say, and may even spur privatization. Doing away with the tax exemption, as congressional Republicans have suggested, would force local governments to choose...
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LPPC Welcomes EPA’s Decision To Reconsider The Power Plant CO2 Rule
March 13, 2025
The Large Public Power Council (LPPC), which represents 29 of the largest not-for-profit public power utilities in the U.S., welcomes the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to reconsider the Power Plant CO2 Rule...
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LPPC Op-ed: Growing Demand for Electricity Requires New Policy Solutions
March 11, 2025
America wants more. More manufacturing, more innovation, more opportunities for economic growth. Technologies like AI and advanced semiconductors are meeting the moment, providing enterprises and individuals with computing power, jobs and investment opportunities...
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Forbes Covers LPPC at USEA Press Briefing
March 6, 2025
Donald Trump is sounding more aggressive than ever, promising to take a closer look at the “endangerment finding,” which is the scientific and legal basis for regulating greenhouse gases that are causing climate change...
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Bill restoring tax-exempt advance refunding introduced in House
February 13, 2025
Cities, states, and other municipal bond issuers would regain the ability to advance refund tax-exempt debt under standalone legislation introduced Thursday by a bipartisan group of lawmakers. Reps. David Kustoff, R-Tenn., Rudy Yakym...
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Gov. Hochul looks to advance nuclear power as wind energy faces headwinds
January 26, 2025
With green energy facing a deep freeze from Washington, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s recent call for steps to advance nuclear power may prove crucial for the state to hit ambitious climate targets while courting energy-hungry high tech, experts said...
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What is and isn’t in Trump’s National Energy Emergency Order
January 21, 2025
President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring a National Energy Emergency talks a lot about energy and energy resources ― referring to different fuels, fossil and otherwise ― but relatively little about generation, defined as the use of those fuels to produce electricity...
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Policy Outlook for 2025: Everything Leads Back to Demand
December 19, 2024
LPPC CEOs convened in Washington to discuss the expectations and priorities for the new Congress and Administration with federal legislators, regulators, and other energy industry leaders. Strategies for meeting load growth underpinned every conversation...
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LPPC’s Post-Election Forum Convenes Policymakers and Public Power Leaders to Address Rapidly Growing Demand for Electricity
December 17, 2024
Leaders of America’s largest public power utilities gathered in Washington, DC, for LPPC’s Post-Election Forum to advance policy to meet rapidly growing demand for electricity. Lawmakers and thought leaders, including Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), Rep. Ferguson (GA-3), and Rep. Scott Peters (CA-50), joined LPPC to share their perspectives...
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