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CUB joins legislative champions in Springfield to urge passage of Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability (CRGA) Act

Jim Chilsen — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:07:48 +0000

With consumers and the power grid facing unprecedented threats–including price spikes, surging demand sparked by data centers, and poor regional policy–legislative champions joined with consumer advocates on Tuesday to urge the Illinois General Assembly to pass the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability (CRGA) Act (SB2473/HB3779). Please: Act now to protect our power bills and our power grid: Urge Springfield to support the CRGA Act. Watch the livestream of Tuesday’s Springfield news conference in which CUB Executive Director Sarah Moskowitz and other supporters explain why the CRGA Act is needed. Here’s the situation: Illinois’ power grid is struggling to keep pace with a surge in demand for energy, largely caused by data centers. Yet, at a time when clean, affordable energy is most needed, power grid operators in Illinois–Regional Transmission Organizations PJM Interconnection and and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO)–are years behind schedule in connecting clean energy projects to the grid that could power millions of homes. As a result, Illinois electric customers are increasingly threatened with poor grid reliability and unexpected price spikes–including one about to hit ComEd customers on June 1. Illinois passed the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA) in 2021, historic, nation-leading legislation that aims for 100 percent clean energy by 2050. But with these unprecedented threats, consumer and environmental advocates want to build on the progress of CEJA by passing the CRGA Act. “Too often Illinois electricity customers face price spikes because of poor policy from power grid operators PJM and MISO,” CUB Executive Director Sarah Moskowitz said. “The Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA) was a historic step toward 100 percent clean, affordable energy, but our work isn’t done. The Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act is urgently needed legislation that builds on CEJA and is good for our power grid and good for our power bills.” The CRGA Act offers a comprehensive suite of commonsense solutions to meet the challenges facing our electric grid while prioritizing affordability for consumers. Among many provisions, the CRGA Act would: Strengthen energy efficiency by increasing the access to rebates to weatherize homes and purchase efficient appliances like HVAC systems and water heaters. Requires new large-scale data centers to cover their own grid interconnection costs and energy needs and bring in new clean energy. It also creates a process for regulators to set rules ensuring residential electric customers are not harmed by these energy-guzzling facilities. Strengthen the power grid by promoting improvements to transmission infrastructure, maximize the amount of clean electricity power lines can carry (through grid-enhancing technologies), and reduce bottlenecks in the process to develop and improve transmission lines. Expand clean, affordable energy by launching an Energy Storage Procurement Program, which directs the Illinois Power Agency to create a long-term energy storage procurement plan to meet future energy goals, and give more households, nonprofit groups and public facilities access to battery storage. (Battery storage is important because it can store solar and wind energy for use even during times when clean energy isn’t being produced.) Launch a “virtual power plant” initiative to pool thousands of small solar and storage projects to replace dirty, outdated, and expensive power […]

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CUB’s 2025 State Capitol agenda: Fighting high bills, ridiculous charges, secret votes and supplier overcharges

Jim Chilsen — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:50:52 +0000

By Bryan McDaniel CUB’s Director of Governmental Affairs The thing about consumer advocates is that we never give up. That’s why year after year, we’re advocating for strong, pro-consumer policy in the halls of the State Capitol. Here’s a summary of what we’re working on. Senate Bill 75: The Water Affordability Act The 2025 session is off to a fast start for consumers with the assignment of SB 75, the Water Affordability Act, to a Senate Committee. CUB helped to introduce the bill along with Sen. Laura Murphy. It’s never easy to pass good consumer legislation in Springfield and this bill will be no different–we face stiff opposition from Aqua Illinois and Illinois American Water, which just received rate hikes. The legislation would end the Qualifying Infrastructure Plant (QIP) surcharge, which allows water utilities to raise rates more quickly, and it would require shareholders to pay the majority of the price tag when a utility purchases a water or sewer system. Under current law, Aqua and Illinois American can charge customers for 100 percent of those costs. Take Action: Urge Springfield to Pass the Water Affordability Act (SB 75) Senate Bill 1275: The Utility Transparency Act CUB has worked with Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton to have SB 1275, the Utility Transparency Act, introduced again this year. The measure follows similar legislation passed in Colorado, Maine, and Connecticut that helped reduce certain ridiculous expenses utilities can recover from ratepayers. The measure here in Illinois would prohibit investor-owned private utilities like ComEd, Nicor Gas, Peoples Gas, Ameren and Illinois American Water from charging customers for these expenses: Memberships in trade associations that push their agenda; Work devoted to political issues campaigns, such as referendums; Pricey insurance the utilities buy to protect their shareholders; Goodwill advertising that enhances a utility’s image and benefits shareholders; Outside lawyers and experts when a utility pushes for a rate hike. Needless to say, the utilities aren’t excited about this bill. Ratepayers should not be paying to enhance utility political power and utility efforts to raise rates. SB 1275 is a commonsense measure. Take Action: Urge Springfield to Pass the Utility Transparency Act (SB 1275) House Bill 1284: Electric and Gas Customer Protection Act Market reports, based on alternative supplier rate data submitted to the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC), continue to show that consumers with alternative electric suppliers have suffered hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, compared with the utility price. HB 1284, sponsored by Rep. Kimberly Du Buclet, features two critical consumer protections that will help to ensure Illinois electric and gas markets are working as intended for consumers. The bill would: require a customer signature if the supplier wants to increase its rate at the time of auto renewal; prohibit supplier agents from being paid on commission. CUB is tired of meeting consumers being charged double and even triple the utility price. It’s wrong, and it needs to end. HB 1284 would go a long way towards helping. Take Action: Support the Electric and Gas Customer Protection Act (HB 1284) House Bill 1802: Electric Utility Accountability HB 1802 , sponsored by Rep Joyce Mason, is an […]

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CUB’s Springfield Update: Thank you to our supporters!

Jim Chilsen — Wed, 29 May 2024 14:48:22 +0000

By Bryan McDaniel, CUB Director of Governmental Affairs With major Illinois utilities pushing for a record number of rate hikes over the past year, CUB drafted and found sponsors for four pro-consumer bills at the State Capitol. CUB’s legislation addressed the kind of issues that frustrate Illinois consumers: Worked to protect customers from paying utility costs that we shouldn’t, like country club memberships for companies and outside expert witnesses in Illinois rate-hike cases. (Read the Chicago Sun-Times editorial in favor of this bill.) Continued to push for relief for water customers burdened by the high costs of privatization. Fought to bring back low-cost AT&T landline plans. Introduced a bill to require that utilities disclose how they vote at regional transmission organizations–the power grid operators, like PJM and MISO, that have a major impact on how affordable, clean and reliable our energy is. Can’t say enough about our bill sponsors. Thank you Rep. Theresa Mah, Rep. Lilian Jiménez, Rep. Nabeela Syed, Rep. Joyce Mason and Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton. CUB continued and, in some cases, started important conversations on lowering utility bills around the state. The fight continues, and CUB will not give up. Sometimes the fight also includes playing defense. CUB testified for consumers during a nearly three-hour Energy & Environment Committee hearing on a right-of-first-refusal proposal, which would give Illinois electric utilities a lucrative monopoly over the building of transmission lines. With billions of dollars of transmission lines set to be built and upgraded across the state the utilities want to corner the market on that investment. While such a policy would be wonderful for utilities’ profits, it wouldn’t be so for consumers’ wallets. A competitive bidding process for transmission-line projects helps keep the costs we pay lower than they otherwise would be. As I write this we are heading into the final week of Session. CUB will be on alert to help stop any utility attempts to inflate their profits, and we will continue to educate lawmakers on how the bills we worked to introduce would save ratepayers money. The thousands of messages you send and petition signatures you provide make a difference, they truly do, as do your donations. The support of our members truly means a lot. Thank you!

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Capitol Report: CUB’s 2024 legislative agenda to lower utility bills

Sophia — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:43:14 +0000

Each year CUB works at the State Capitol on a broad range of issues related to our core mission of saving consumers money on their utility bills. “It’s not easy fighting for consumer interests against the big utilities in Springfield, but I know you’ve got my back,” said Bryan McDaniel, CUB’s Director of Governmental Affairs. “We’re on the lookout to oppose legislation that would advance the utilities’ agenda and increase our costs. And we’re also working to support proposed pieces of legislation that are common-sense, pro-consumer solutions. This year, we’ll need help from CUB supporters to build awareness among Illinois legislators. Be prepared to take action in the weeks to come. ” CUB’s priorities for the 2024 Illinois General Assembly session include the following. (At the end, we also update you on the “Right of First Refusal” legislation we oppose.) Utility Affordability Act Bill Number: Senate Bill 2885/House Bill 5061 Sponsor: Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton and Rep. Theresa Mah What it does: Current Illinois law allows utilities to recover certain expenses from their customers that consumer advocates have long argued should be paid for by shareholders. Under the Utility Affordability Act, investor-owned electric, gas and water utilities in Illinois would be prohibited from charging customers for the following expenses: Utility dues for memberships in trade associations that push the companies’ agenda. Work devoted to political issues campaigns, such as referendums. Goodwill advertising that enhances the utility image and benefits shareholders. Charitable donations made by utilities on behalf of ratepayers. Insurance protection for shareholders. Lawyer and expert witness costs when utilities push for rate hikes before the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC). Typically, such legal expenses take up the largest chunk of these recoverable costs. CUB estimates the Illinois legislation could, for the average year, save ratepayers across Illinois more than $50 million, based on documents the utilities filed with their most recent rate cases. What you can do: Send a message to your legislators in favor of the Utility Affordability Act. More on this bill: The Utility Affordability Act is the latest reform measure in the country designed to bar utilities from burdening customers with potentially tens of millions of dollars in expenses for self-serving purposes to increase their political power and advance their agendas. Such self-serving spending should instead be covered by the companies’ shareholders. Three other states have passed similar reform legislation over the past year: Connecticut, Colorado and Maine. Read: The joint news release by CUB and AARP Illinois. The Capitol News Illinois article about the legislation. The Chicago Sun-Times editorial about the legislation: “The Legislature has a chance to inject some common sense into utility bills. It should do so.” Lawmakers across the U.S. seek to curb utility spending on politics, ads and more extras Water Affordability & Accountability Bill Number: House Bill 5157 Sponsor: Rep. Nabeela Syed What it does: This bill would lower water utility bills by: requiring water utility shareholders to pay the majority of costs when the utility buys a water or wastewater system, creating a referendum prior to privatization of water or sewer systems, removing the QIP surcharge that speeds rate increases for utility customers. […]

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CUB pushes for relief for Ameren customers

Elizabeth — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 19:00:42 +0000

Ameren customers have suffered under electricity prices that have doubled–and they’ve paid hundreds of dollars more to power their homes over the past year. That’s why CUB and other consumer advocates are urging the Illinois General Assembly to secure $200 million in electric bill relief. CUB covered the price spike in a blog earlier this year. When prices spiked last June, Ameren Illinois estimated residential customers would see a $626 annual increase on the power supply side of the bill or an average of $52 or more per month throughout the year. The increase is expected to last at least through May 31st, but prices could remain elevated over the next 12 months. While a $200 million relief package was passed in recent legislation, that money has yet to be appropriated in the legislative budget, meaning that consumers have yet to see direct bill relief. That’s why CUB and other consumer advocates are calling on legislators to do everything they can to appropriate the $200 million and give relief to Ameren customers as quickly as possible. Please sign our petition and let your legislators know you support relief for Ameren Illinois customers. For more information on CUB’s legislative work, read our 2023 legislative agenda and visit the CUB Action Center for more ways you can get involved.

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Bring Back Consumer Choice Plans: Support HB 3689

Elizabeth — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 21:08:26 +0000

As part of CUB’s 2023 legislative agenda, the watchdog is working on House Bill 3689 to require AT&T once again to offer the Consumer’s Choice plans as an affordable landline option to consumers. The bill, sponsored by state Rep. Michelle Mussman, needs your support. Sign CUB’s HB 3689 petition to tell policymakers that AT&T should offer this low-cost option again. For about a decade, AT&T landline customers saved money on the Consumer’s Choice phone plans. One of the best phone deals in the nation, the plans were created by CUB in a legal settlement with AT&T in 2006 and later mandated by the Illinois General Assembly. We successfully kept the plans available for landline customers for years, but in 2017, AT&T ended the plans as part of its push to deregulate local phone service. Smartphones are great, but the Consumer’s Choice plans were the cheapest, most reliable option for consumers. HB 3689 would also make it easier to help lower-income consumers stay connected by placing a “check box” on bills where customers could donate to an assistance program for internet customers in need. In today’s world, staying connected can make all the difference, especially for Illinois’ most vulnerable consumers. AT&T opposes this bill, and that’s why we need your help. We’re all in this together–so even if you don’t have a landline, please help us stand up to the phone giant and support a low-cost phone option for some of Illinois’ most vulnerable consumers. For more information on current landline options, read CUB’s AT&T Landline Choices fact sheet.

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Fighting for Illinois Consumers: CUB’s 2023 Legislative Agenda

Elizabeth — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 21:04:31 +0000

Each year CUB works on a broad range of issues related to our core mission of saving consumers money on their utility bills. CUB’s priorities for the 2023 Illinois General Assembly session include the following: HB 2541- Representative Theresa Mah: This bill would cap the profit rate of electric, gas and water utilities at 8% and equity ratio at 50%, unless the utility can prove to the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) that doing so would harm consumers by increasing utility borrowing costs. The ROE and equity ratio increases ComEd is seeking for 2024 alone would inflate rates by $221 million. Increasing the profit margin for the utility does nothing to improve service for customers. Currently, in Nicor’s $320.9 million rate case the company is seeking a profit rate of 10.35% and a capital structure with 54.52% common equity. TAKE ACTION: Sign CUB’s petition to put a cap on utility ROE profits. HB 2721- Representative Dagmara Avelar: This proposed legislation would remove a surcharge from water utility bills that supercharges utility spending and thus increases the pace of consumer rate increases. Roughly 15% of Illinois American Water’s requested $100 million rate hike filed last year included fees flowing through the surcharge that were then placed into base rates. TAKE ACTION: Send a message to your state representative urging them to support HB 2721. HB 3689- Representative Michelle Mussman: Consumer’s Choice Plans are low-cost local calling plans that AT&T successfully removed from the Illinois Telecommunications Act in 2017. The phone company built the landline network under rate-of-return regulation, meaning consumers have paid for the network many times over. This bill would bring the Consumer’s Choice Plans back into law and ensure AT&T offers them. The bill would also make it easier to help the less fortunate connect to broadband by placing a “check box” on bills through which people could donate to an assistance program for internet customers in need. TAKE ACTION: Sign CUB’s petition to bring back Consumer’s Choice Plans. SB 1477- Senator Ann Gillespie: Currently, customers pay 100% of acquisition and closing costs when a private utility buys a water or sewer system. The prices paid for systems are inflated due to the “Fair Market Value” appraisal process in state law. The systems are often fully depreciated and then replaced by the private utility. The inflated purchase price paid by utilities are making bills unaffordable for consumers, as demonstrated by Illinois American Water’s $100 million rate case filed last year. This bill would make it so that shareholders pay for 80% of the purchase price, instead of the 0% they currently pay. The current water and sewer privatization model is untenable for consumers. TAKE ACTION: Send a message to your state senator urging them to support SB 1477. SB 1538- Senator Cristina Castro: This proposed legislation would sunset the Qualified Infrastructure Plant (QIP) surcharge on gas bills that has supercharged utility spending and rate increases. Of the $160 million gas rate-hike Ameren filed last month, $53.4 million has flowed through the QIP surcharge and now will be put into base rates. Peoples Gas is currently requesting an increase of $402 […]

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BREAKING: Illinois House passes nation-leading clean energy legislation

Jim Chilsen — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 13:36:10 +0000

The Illinois House late Thursday passed the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (Senate Bill 2408)–historic, comprehensive clean energy legislation. The legislation now heads to the Senate on Monday for a final vote. (Urge your senator to say YES to this legislation.) SB 2408 passed 83-33 in the House. The Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition, of which CUB is a member, called the legislation the most equitable clean energy jobs bill in the nation. It puts Illinois on a path to 100 percent clean energy while implementing utility ethics reforms and expanding energy efficiency to historic levels. With a nation-leading focus on equity, the bill aims to provide a spark to the economy by bringing thousands of clean energy jobs to communities that need it the most. “If we don’t make a sincere effort to address climate change now, it will become a bigger and bigger threat, not only to our health but also our utility bills,” CUB Communications Director Jim Chilsen said. “It takes a lot of planning and hard work to find least-cost, consumer-friendly ways to fight climate change and that’s what this bill is trying to do. There’s a lot more work to do overall to fight energy burden and climate change, but this is a big step in the right direction.” House passage of the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act is a major milestone in a campaign that began more than three years ago, as the Clean Jobs Coalition–made up of consumer and environmental advocates–met with residents across Illinois to learn their thoughts and priorities concerning energy. (CUB traveled the state helping to hold these “Listen. Lead. Share” events.) Over the last two years, advocates wanting to pass a bill weathered delays caused by the pandemic and resistance from the fossil fuel industry. The effort to pass a strong energy bill intensified in the summer of 2020. That’s when ComEd was caught by federal prosecutors in a corruption scandal over its attempts to pass energy legislation that allowed it to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in rubber-stamped rate hikes (formula rates). After multiple attempts since May to pass strong legislation, a comprehensive bill (SB 18) passed the Illinois Senate on Sept. 1. While there was broad agreement on most of SB 18’s provisions, there were still key issues to be resolved in the House. That included a timeline for coal-fired power plants, like the municipally owned Prairie State facility in Southern Illinois and Springfield’s Dallman plant, to ratchet down their emissions for the next several years before being carbon-free by 2045. As we have reported before, failure is not an option. We have to pass comprehensive energy legislation, and here are a few reasons why: A grim report from the United Nations stressed that the world must begin now to move away from dirty energy in order to prevent the most catastrophic effects of climate change. CUB’s own research shows that not only is climate change a health threat, but it also could lead to billions of dollars in higher power bills if we do nothing. “Our climate cannot wait,” House Speaker Emanuel Chris Welch said on the House floor Thursday […]

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CUB, other advocates race against clock: General Assembly tries one more time to pass strong clean energy bill

Sophia — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 12:00:17 +0000

UPDATE: Early this morning, the Illinois Senate passed comprehensive clean energy legislation (Senate Bill 18) and sent it to the state House of Representatives. (The vote was 39-16-2.) That came after days of negotiations and two hearings by the Senate Committee on Energy and Public Utilities. While there is broad agreement on most of the provisions in the bill, there are still key issues that will have to be resolved in the House of Representatives, including the process for closing coal-fired power plants by 2045. CUB will update you when we know when the House is scheduled to take up the matter. In the meantime, the various parties say they’re ready to work with the House to pass legislation. Read the statement from the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition. We appreciate all the CUB supporters who have sent thousands of messages to the General Assembly in favor of strong, pro-consumer energy legislation. We know it’s been a long haul–more than two years of hard work. We’re closer than we’ve ever been, and we’re not giving up. In what could be one of the most important weeks in the history of Illinois energy policy, legislative leaders in Springfield are working to pass a comprehensive energy bill before the end of August. The question is: Will CUB and other advocates be able to achieve legislation that’s good for the planet and Illinois consumers? CUB supports a sweeping proposal by Gov. J.B. Pritzker that would contain historic provisions to hold utilities accountable, help communities most hurt by pollution enjoy the benefits of clean energy jobs, close dirty power plants by 2045 and move Illinois to 100 percent clean energy. At the beginning of the month, consumer and environmental advocates and labor leaders were at an impasse—mainly over a schedule to close coal-fired power plants. Although some progress has been made since then, the schedule to close power plants is still a sticking point, and the governor and consumer and environmental advocates opposed the first legislative proposal that was filed on Aug. 30. The hope is that Springfield can still pass strong, pro-consumer legislation before the end of August—which is midnight tonight. The stakes are high for a number of reasons: A grim report from the United Nations essentially said our backs are against the wall in terms of dealing with the most catastrophic effects of climate change and the world must begin immediately to move away from dirty energy. CUB’s own research shows that not only is climate change a health threat, but it also could lead to billions of dollars in higher power bills if we do nothing. Money to support clean, affordable solar power has dried up during the legislative standoff. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that after a state incentive program ran out of money last year, just 313 small rooftop solar projects were completed statewide in the three-month period ending June 30. That’s compared with 2,908 a year earlier. Solar had been booming in Illinois, but stumbled after these incentives from an earlier law, the Future Energy Jobs Act, ran out. In fact, if Illinois doesn’t pass a bill by the end of August, more than $300 million in […]

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Working for historic energy legislation in Springfield

Sophia — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 16:00:42 +0000

Negotiations to pass legislation that would secure clean, affordable energy for Illinois and hold utilities accountable have been extended in Springfield, and at press time, negotiators were hopeful a strong bill could be passed this year, if not before the end of the summer. “I want to thank the CUB supporters who have sent thousands of messages to Springfield leaders in favor of strong clean energy legislation,” CUB Executive Director David Kolata said. “We appreciate your patience—we’re closer than ever to passing a strong, pro-consumer energy bill.” How did we get here? For two-and-a-half years, CUB has fought for strong clean energy legislation called the Clean Energy Jobs Act, or CEJA. The ComEd corruption scandal ramped up efforts to pass the bill. At the heart of the scandal, the company won an unfair “formula” rate-setting process that has led to hundreds of millions of dollars in rate hikes. CEJA was one of a handful of energy bills proposed in 2021. As negotiations continued, Gov. J.B. Pritzker championed a compromise proposal that shared many provisions with the bill CUB supported. Why do we like the compromise proposal? The proposal would: Launch a responsible plan to fight climate change and work toward 100 percent clean energy by 2045. Support low-cost clean energy and give a boost to the solar energy market. Solar has boomed in Illinois—making the state a national leader—but has sputtered after incentives from an earlier law, the Future Energy Jobs Act, ran out. Supporting clean energy creates jobs for communities that need it the most—including those abandoned by the coal industry. Replace the unfair electric formula rate-setting system with one that can provide more oversight. Allow state regulators to open an investigation into how to fairly compensate ComEd customers for the utility’s corruption scandal. Create an independent ethics monitor at the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) to rein in utilities. Pave the way for cleaner, more affordable electric transportation options. Expand energy efficiency programs that have helped lower bills by billions of dollars. So what’s left to do? Various sides have reached agreement on almost all the provisions in what would be a final bill, but at press time negotiations continued over the schedule for closing fossil fuel power plants, and a bill had not been officially introduced. Why is it important that we keep fighting? The impact of pollution on our environment is one of the biggest threats to our well-being, and it also is terrible for our electricity bills. (Read about our research on the $10.9 billion cost of climate change.) Also, ComEd’s corruption scandal heightens the urgency to pass legislation to hold utilities accountable. The New York Times recently reported on the potentially devastating consequences of climate change in Chicago, such as fluctuations in the water levels of Lake Michigan that could spark widespread flooding and property damage. In fact, the Chicagoland area has already seen instances of extreme weather with tornadoes touching down in Naperville and Rogers Park over the last year. Extreme weather has also picked up nationwide with an unprecedented Texas deep freeze, flooded subway stations in New York City, and record-breaking heat […]

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