Today, @A1Policy announced that we have launched an investigation into PG&E’s decision to decommission the Potter Valley Hydroelectric Project — critical infrastructure that has supported California farmers, rural communities, water supplies, and energy production for more than a century. We’ve already filed 14 FOIA and California Public Records Act requests and submitted comments to FERC. The people whose farms, livelihoods, and communities depend on this Project deserve to know why PG&E decided to walk away, who influenced that decision, and whether the full consequences were ever seriously considered. We intend to find out.

.@ASU wants to use eminent domain to bulldoze the Louis Emerson House — a historic Phoenix home owned by 89-year-old Robert Young, who has preserved it for more than 50 years. For what? Not a classroom, a hospital, or a lab. For “open space.” ASU’s own filing shows the medical campus can be built without putting a building on Mr. Young’s property. So this isn’t necessity. It's ASU flexing its outsized influence and power in order to further its aesthetic desires. Eminent domain should never be used as a weapon to erase an elderly man’s legacy for a taxpayer-funded landscaping preference. We have asked ASU and its Board of Regents to withdraw the condemnation action and preserve the Louis Emerson House. Read @A1Policy's letter here.