TCCers have been showing up regularly to city council meetings and last night was no exception, only this time with some great fanfare, including 5 articulate speakers and professionally crafted signs help up by a dozen CCA supporters. Although CCA is not the law of the land yet in Arizona, our state legislators need to hear from cities like Tucson that there is a growing demand at the local level for weaning from fossil fuels and increasing renewable energy and energy efficiency through the proven model of CCA.

To view CCA advocates’ testimonies, start at approx. 6:17:11, with Jane Conlin as the last speaker, ending at approx. 6:43:05, including several comments in between on other important topics during that time frame. Here is the link:

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While SCOTUS wants to use the excuse of a document written in the late 18^thcentury to roll back GHG emission regulations by the EPA, state constitutions have more latitude.  AND cities and states can make the difference with their climate action plans.  Kevin Gurney, one of the authors of the most recent IPCC report and a professor at Northern AZ University, is optimistic:

“Right now, I’m still optimistic that, at the end of the day, we’ll just work around (the court decision),” Gurney said. “States are trying to do stuff. Cities are trying to do stuff. If we can release the information they need that will allow them to independently go after this problem that, to me, is the hopeful part.”

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Read the cover story in the Phoenix New Times that answers the big question, why can’t Arizona ratepayers get solar energy from their utilities?  AZ4CC state director Shelly Gordon is featured in the article.

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Read the latest op-ed by Shelly Gordon and Russell Lowes, published in the Arizona Star where we tell readers why CCA is a winning energy choice model for Tucson and Pima County

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by Russell Lowes

AZ4CC Advisory Board member, Russell Lowes, penned an op-ed for the Arizona Star (Tucson), challenging the alleged benefits of developing more nuclear energy.  From a dollar standpoint, Lowes argues, why would the average consumer spend more than three times the price for new nuclear energy compared to solar energy.  Dollar for dollar, the average household would get 3 kilowatt hours of new nuclear energy compared to 10 kilowatt hours of solar energy.

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