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Powerful US utilities secretly fund ‘grassroots’ groups to sway cities away from switch to public power

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Powerful US utilities secretly fund ‘grassroots’ groups to sway cities away from switch to public power
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As communities push for publicly owned electricity, private utilities may be deploying dark money and local front groups to stop themThe utility industry is quietly dispatching a network of front groups to thwart the growing push for public power across the US – a push that comes amid mounting frustration over sky-high utility bills, electric outages, a slow transition to clean energy and private utilities’ soaring profits.Communities from Ann Arbor, Michigan to San Diego, California and St Pete

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