Your CUB Voice

Welcome to the online edition of The CUB Voice! We’ve mailed out a smaller print edition to conserve costs in the wake of a record number of rate-hike battles. But this digital version has full coverage of how your CUB team is fighting for lower utility bills, clean energy and consumer protections in 2024.  My special request: On our 40th anniversary, please help us offer vital, free consumer services by contributing to our $750,000 goal. Thank you!

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Sarah Moskowitz, CUB Executive Director

• Spring into Savings with CUB’s Energy Efficiency Tips
• Five questions every gas and electric customer should ask when reading their bills
• CUB speaks out: Beware of bad deals from alternative energy suppliers
• CUB analysis: Read alternative supplier offers carefully (and watch for red flags)

• Chicago Sun-Times: People say they were taken for a ride by alternative energy suppliers. How you can protect yourself.
• Capitol News Illinois: Customers pay for utilities’ lawyers and corporate donations. Advocates want to change that.
• Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: Illinois utility customers shouldn’t have to pay excessive add-on fees to their bills
• CBS News: AT&T cell outage has some dreading possibility of end of landlines in Illinois
• Mother Jones: Utility Fraud and Corruption Are Threatening the Clean Energy Transition

• WTTW Chicago Tonight: Chicago’s Natural Gas Pipeline Project Halted Amid Push for Cleaner Energy Investments
• Consumers for a Better Grid – A CUB Illinois Project
• Climate Break Podcast: Making Electric Heating Accessible and Affordable for Low-income Residents, with Sarah Moskowitz
• WBEZ Reset: Advocates push for electric in new Chicago buildings

CUB’s Karen Tolentino tells consumers about CUB’s services at an event in Lemont.

Four generations of CUB executive directors, from left: Sarah Moskowitz, David Kolata, Marty Cohen and Sue Stewart.

CUB’s Matt Harvey goes over an electricity bill with a consumer at a utility bill clinic.

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