Just last year, Southwest Gas and its stockholders celebrated the largest revenue increase in company history, thanks to the company’s back-to-back rate hikes on Arizona customers in 2022 and 2023. Here we are in 2024 and gas company executives once again are making plans to hike utility bills for the third time in three years![...]

Our elected Commissioners at the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) have the authority to create enormous value for Arizona but have declined to do so. Instead of creating value they are allowing and exacerbating avoidable damages and costs charged to ratepayers and taxpayers.

A new poll released today by Chispa AZ reveals that only 8% of Latiné voters in Arizona believe the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) is taking the state in the right direction. This poll of over 500 Latiné voters from across the state is the first of its kind to provide insight into what Latiné voters[...]

The Arizona Corporation Commission voted to exempt a 200-megawatt power plant expansion in Mohave County from environmental review, upending the way the commission has regulated power plants for decades. State law requires utilities to obtain a certificate of environmental compatibility before building power plants larger than 100 megawatts. But UniSource Energy asked regulators to rule[...]

You may have seen the jaw-dropping reports exposing how the gas utility industry was aware, as far back as the 1970s, that your gas stove could make you sick. Instead of working on a public health solution, what did they do?  Industry executives borrowed a page from the Big Tobacco playbook – they funded their own research to confuse the[...]