In a quick poll CUB released last week, 98 percent of you showed support for a “Pay TV Customer’s Bill of Rights”! This week, we want to share those results with Illinois’ Congressional Delegation, and urge it to push for consumer protections for pay TV customers. Here’s the question we…...
10 Tips to Cut Your Cellphone Bill
In just a few decades, the use of mobile devices has become ubiquitous (more than 90 percent of households now use wireless mobile service)—but that hasn’t made bills any more affordable. In fact, one of the biggest complaints we hear in the field is about bloated cellphone bills. With new features, expensive data…...
We have a winner!
We have a winner in the CUB energy efficiency survey. Congratulations to John H. of Glendale Heights, who will receive $100 off his utility bills! CUB is alerting Illinois residents to special pricing programs and energy efficiency incentives offered by the utilities that can help you save big on your utility bills. More than 1,900 people…...
2,400+ respond to CUB’s Clean Power Plan survey
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to issue final rules this summer on the Clean Power Plan— the plan to cut carbon emissions from power plants 30 percent by 2030. In anticipation of this historic decision, we are asking CUB Action Network members: Do you support the Clean Power Plan? If you haven’t completed…...
500+ respond to EPA carbon plan survey
So far, more than 500 CUB Action Network members have taken our survey on the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Clean Power Plan” to reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030 (Illinois individual goal is to cut emissions by an estimated 33 percent). The plan has evoked a heated public debate, so…...
You’ll need an aspirin for these headaches
At CUB, we couldn’t do the work we do—saving individual consumers hundreds of dollars on their utility bills, advocating for consumer protections in Springfield, and fighting rate-hike hungry energy companies—without support and input from our members. That’s why we sent a survey out last November asking you to rate your…...
