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NRECA Urges Congress: Save Large Water Heater
NRECA is urging Congress to act quickly to prevent a federal ban on large capacity, grid-enabled water heaters from taking effect April 16. Hundreds of electric cooperatives rely on these water heaters...
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Obama Urged to Pick up Pace on N.W. River Treaty
Members of the Northwest congressional delegation have told President Obama they’re concerned his administration is dragging its feet on renegotiating a treaty that affects millions of dollars in...
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Seminole Electric Urges Change on EPA Rule
Congress must step in to halt the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan temporarily while the controversial rule to limit carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector goes through the...
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Bird Kill Aims to Save Salmon, Protect Ratepayers
Nearly 3,500 double-crested cormorants are targeted for elimination in the next year as wildlife officials try to control the birds that are scarfing baby salmon and affecting Northwest electric rates....
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FERC’s Honorable to Co-ops: Make Yourself Heard
Electric cooperatives need to continue “to engage substantively” with federal regulators about reliability concerns in the proposed Clean Power Plan before it’s expected to be finalized this summer, a...
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Messer Encourages Co-op Strength
Every once in a while, it’s good to hear a word of encouragement. And that’s what Rep. Luke Messer, R-Ind., offered to nearly 2,000 electric cooperative leaders at the 2015 NRECA Legislative Conference...
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Despite Drought, ‘Blob,’ Enough Hydro in Northwest
Despite a mild winter, reduced snowpack runoff and a strange weather “blob,” officials say the Pacific Northwest should have enough water to meet its hydropower needs this summer. Bonneville Power...
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Co-ops Call on Congress for Coal Ash Certainty
Electric cooperatives are asking Congress to classify coal ash as nonhazardous waste and equip states to meet new federal disposal standards in a way that keeps the power generation byproduct...
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NRECA Seeks Clearer Bat Rule for Right-of-Way Work
NRECA is offering ways the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service can improve an interim special rule to protect the northern long-eared bat while ensuring essential right-of-way activities continue. NRECA...
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Remote Co-ops Face Power Challenges
The head of an Alaska electric cooperative joined officials from Hawaii and U.S. territories in urging support for programs designed to help islanded, non-grid-connected communities build more robust...
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Warm Water is Bad News for Endangered Fish
Fish species in the Pacific Northwest have to endure predatory attacks by sea lions, cormorants and Caspian terns. A spate of warm weather in the Northwest is causing problems for endangered salmon....
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Strengthening the Bond Between RUS and Co-ops
The head of the Rural Utilities Service said his agency plans to strengthen its decades-long bond with electric cooperatives as they deal with the impact of the Obama administration’s new carbon...
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Agreement Preserves Future of Large Water Heaters
A legal settlement between a water heater maker and the federal government further validates the manufacture of large capacity, grid-enabled water heaters that electric cooperatives rely on for...
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Continued Concern on Endangered Species Act
When it comes to electric cooperatives and endangered species, the devil might be in the details, a former House of Representatives committee chairman told co-op leaders. Former U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings,...
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Sea Lions Step Up Endangered Salmon Feast
Sea lions in the Pacific Northwest are extending their reach and their consumption of endangered fish species that ratepayers in the region spend hundreds of millions of dollars to protect. California...
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Co-ops Urge Rural Development Funds
Electric cooperatives boost rural development nationwide with U.S. Department of Agriculture loans and grants and are urging Congress to keep the programs funded, a co-op executive told a U.S. Senate...
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Congress Votes Against EPA Clean Power Plan
Congress registered its disapproval of how the Obama administration wants to proceed on climate change with overwhelming votes against the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. Seminole...
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NRECA: Veto Won’t Stop Clean Power Plan Fight
NRECA says the task of turning around the Clean Power Plan remains front and center despite President Obama’s veto of congressional resolutions that disapproved of the Environmental Protection Agency’s...
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Vilsack: Co-ops Key in Rural Rebuild
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told electric cooperative leaders “we’re headed in the right direction in rural America” and said co-ops play a crucial role in that. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack...
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Alaska Co-op Sees Federal Role in Affordable Power
An Alaska electric cooperative is urging Congress to clear the way for the federal government to work more effectively with the state and other stakeholders to improve energy infrastructure and advance...
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