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Shelby Green and Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Shutoffs & Profiteering
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It tracks utility service disconnections and corporate profiteering—because, it turns out, they’re flip sides of a coin.
Electric utilities have disconnected US households more than 4 million times since the beginning of Covid, preceding the Russian war on Ukraine.
At the same time, shareholder payouts went up by $1.9 billion, increases that could have paid those households’ bills five times over.
Shelby Green is research fellow at the Energy and Policy Institute.
Selah Goodson Bell is energy justice campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity.
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