State regulators are setting utility profit rates too high, allowing utilities to overcharge customers by billions in order to overpay their investors.

AI technology and large language models are growing in popularity. Also growing is the technology’s detrimental effect on the environment. Each query into ChatGPT, to use one example, requires ...

Click on image to download the fact sheet. As lawmakers have grown increasingly serious about addressing Amazon’s harms, Amazon has sought to portray itself as beneficial to independent small ...

The presentation of the report and videos was led by United Workers’ young activists, who were also essential in stopping a planned 4,000 ton-per-day garbage incinerator in Curtis Bay in 2016. That ...

Chain dollar stores are inundating America’s communities. In both small towns and urban neighborhoods, they are edging out locally owned businesses, freezing out entrepreneurs, and shifting profits ...

To illuminate how consolidation shapes food access, ILSR created an interactive map that shows food deserts alongside the location of different types of grocery stores — independent, small chains, ...

ILSR has conducted a sweeping investigation that reveals Amazon has quietly become a major force in how cities, counties, and school districts purchase basic supplies — and that its tightening grip is ...

New York is facing an affordability crisis rooted in a deeper problem: too many essential systems are controlled by distant corporations. This has left residents with high grocery and energy costs, ...

Dollar General, Dollar Tree, and Family Dollar are targeting vulnerable communities, opening stores at a breakneck pace in urban and rural areas alike. It’s tempting to assume that these chains simply ...

Rooftop solar saved not just panel owners, but all California customers $2.3 billion on utility bills in 2024, according to a blockbuster new report. The study found that the rooftop panels saved ...

When you picture rooftop solar, you probably imagine workers strapped into harnesses, carrying solar panels, and clambering around on top of a building. But homeowners, businesses, and community ...

The food waste crisis continues to spoil progress for communities across the United States. The current burn-and-bury paradigm emits harmful pollutants, perpetuates environmental injustice, and ...