It calls utilities out for “greenwashing.”
published yesterday by environmental group Sierra Club and University of California, Santa Barbara associate professor Leah Stokes. In other words, utilities are paying lip service to climate change without doing enough to actually tackle the crisis.The assessment of US utilities includes 77 operating companies from 50 parent utility companies that generate the most electricity from coal and gas.
That shows that utilities haven’t improved much since last year, when they earned an aggregate score of 17 out of 100 points in the first iteration of the. What’s even more worrisome is that more than a third of companies actually scored worse this year than they did last year, and about a tenth of them made no progress at all.
If you want to know whether your utility made passing or failing grades, Sierra Club has a search tool
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