350 Chicago, as a general member of the 350 Network Council, will be participating in a Utility Accountability Campaign being conducted across the country by the (15) 350 chapter members of the Network Council. We will also be working with 350US, the national headquarters, on this Utility Accountability Campaign. 350 US has decided to make Utility reform one of its top priorities in the United States.

I am reaching out to ask for volunteers to help the committee to plan an action/press conference in mid-August surrounding Utility Accountability issues, specifically,

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Our next meeting will be ?tonight, Wednesday, July 10th at 7:00 pm via Zoom. ?

Right now, Investor Owned Utility's (IOU's) are blocking progress toward the necessary transition to a clean energy economy. In partnership with fossil fuel companies, these IOU's are inhibiting clean energy technologies from being built, placed on the grid all while trying to roll back programs like residential rooftop solar community solar, and consumers being paid for excess power once it is sent back into the grid. Moreover, the IOU's are also planning to build more dirty plants for burning methane gas, a major contributor to the climate crisis.

We must send a message to the IOU's and their suppliers in the fossil fuel industry. We won't stand for their obstruction! We must transition in a faster manner than the current trajectory.

Please consider joining this Utility Accountability Campaign. I hope to see you there.