In January, CUB filed its final comments on Idaho Power’s 2017 Integrated Resource Plan. Idaho Power is an electricity utility based out of Boise, Idaho, with service territory in eastern Oregon. Integrated Resource Plans are future road-maps for utilities. In the... Read More »

In order for your lights to turn on when you flip a switch at the end of a long day, electricity needs to flow into your home at a moment’s notice. To respond to this need, and to the litany of... Read More »

The Portland Water Bureau (PWB), in consultation with CUB, has figured out an innovative approach to help low-income renters cover the cost of their City of Portland water and sewer bills. The major problem facing water and sewer utilities across... Read More »

Help CUB fight for Net Neutrality by signing on to our testimony in support of Oregon House Bill (HB) 4155 – proposed legislation that would ensure a “net neutral” Oregon. CUB was present at a public hearing, and offered testimony, before the... Read More »

In August of 2016 I wrote a blog titled So I Think I Want to Buy An Electric Vehicle…, which among other things, imagined how each of the three kinds of EVs might work for me. I ended the article suggesting... Read More »

In the latter part of 2017, there was much ado about the potential federal tax reform measure floating around in Washington, DC. The bill that was eventually passed—the Tax Reconciliation Act, Public Law Number 115-97 (“Tax Cuts and Jobs Act”)—was enacted on... Read More »