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Royal Society of Edinburgh: Exploring the Role of Jewellery-making in Women's Recovery Journey
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Sept. 19 (TNSrpt) -- The Royal Society of Edinburgh issued the following news:
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18 September 2026
Exploring the role of jewellery-making in women's recovery journey
Dr Chris Lim and Dr Susan Levy, University of Dundee and Stephanie Graham, Dundee Community Craft CIC
Award: RSE Small Research Grant
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Women in recovery from complex trauma and substance use are among the most vulnerable in society. Their identity can often be distorted or disrupted, and rebuilding a positive sense of self is crucial to a successful recovery journey.
Awarded an RSE Small Research Grant,
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EDINBURGH, Scotland, Sept. 19 (TNSrpt) -- The Royal Society of Edinburgh issued the following news:
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18 September 2026
Exploring the role of jewellery-making in women's recovery journey
Dr Chris Lim and Dr Susan Levy, University of Dundee and Stephanie Graham, Dundee Community Craft CIC
Award: RSE Small Research Grant
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Women in recovery from complex trauma and substance use are among the most vulnerable in society. Their identity can often be distorted or disrupted, and rebuilding a positive sense of self is crucial to a successful recovery journey.
Awarded an RSE Small Research Grant,Dr Chris Lim, design academic and researcher at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, together with Dr Susan Levy, senior lecturer in education community social work at the University of Dundee, collaborated with Stephanie Graham, jeweller and educator at Dundee Community Craft CIC, to take forward their project: Exploring the wellbeing and continued care and support of marginalised and vulnerable women through creative practice.
This cross-disciplinary, multi-organisational research responded to the need to better understand the benefits of creative practice in supporting recovery, and to improve links between practitioners and creative organisations within recovery settings. The key objective of the project was to develop methods to demonstrate the value of engagement in creative activities during recovery and to establish pathways to rehabilitation and reintegration, thereby creating lasting, positive change.
Key milestones of the project included:
1. An exhibition of the jewellery created by the workshop participants was held at the V&A Dundee for Recovery Month: Healing Through Craft, 2 - 30th Sept 2025
2. A knowledge exchange event--Healing Through Craft - Better Practice--was held in early 2026 at the V&A Dundee for practitioners across the fields of art and design, healthcare, and social work.
3. A presentation and conversations with 15 MSPs took place at Holyrood on 11th February 2026 to discuss research findings.
4. A report titled Exploring the role of Jewellery-Making in Women's Recovery Journeys was published.
During the award, the researchers facilitated jewellery-making workshops at Dundee Community Craft CIC for service users of the Dundee Women's Hub. Before and after the creative workshops, the participants took part in interviews and focus groups to discuss barriers to engagement and the impact the sessions had had on their self-esteem, skill development, their sense of community, and overall well-being. This data was captured by the researchers on empathy maps to chart and enable the analysis of individual development.
The research findings showed that the creative activities had a profound positive impact on the participating women, who benefited from newfound knowledge, skills, confidence, and peer connections.
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"It's great to be able to learn a new skill and, more importantly for me, have a reminder that I can wear permanently to help me focus on my journey and remember the reasons for my sobriety." Jewellery workshop participant
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Dr Lim explained that the RSE award enabled them to form a dynamic and interdisciplinary team to learn and work together.
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"The project allowed me to work with women in recovery and understand how design and making can support wellbeing. Dr Susan Levy was able to extend her comprehension of the use of creative practices in supporting vulnerable groups, and Stephanie, who has aspirations of undertaking a PhD, was able to gain valuable experience and insight into the research planning and delivery process.
The project facilitated conversations around the value of design, not just art, in contributing to well-being, and specifically, for people in recovery, which is new." Dr Lim
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Dr Levy continued, "The RSE award also allowed us to have a discussion with the V&A Dundee around the impact of design on communities who are vulnerable and marginalised, culminating in the 'Healing through Craft' exhibition and the knowledge exchange workshop to share our project findings. We were also interviewed by STV and invited to Holyrood to talk about Design and Recovery. This would not have happened without the support of the RSE award."
The V&A Dundee exhibition and associated knowledge exchange event enabled creative practitioners to network with healthcare professionals and showcase the role of social prescribing and creative practice in supporting recovery.
After the knowledge exchange event, the research team received further funding from the Dundee Primary Care Drug Redesign Project. Through this newly funded project, in addition to delivering jewellery workshops, a storyteller and author will work with service users to teach storytelling and self-presentation skills to support confidence in public settings and employment contexts. The team believes this service model has strong potential for replication and could be successfully used in other settings with different user groups, such as men in recovery or women with babies in recovery.
Finally, the findings of this important RSE-funded research have now been used to inform a major funding application, valued at up to pound sterling15M, with ESRC-DWP titled: What Works Centre for Local Employment Support.
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REPORT: https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/178343744/Final_Report_Digital_13.09.26.pdf
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Original text here: https://rse.org.uk/exploring-the-role-of-jewellery-making-in-womens-recovery-journey/
Michigan State University Research Foundation: Common Vector Robotics Wins $425,000 at Grand Rapids PitchMI Semifinal
EAST LANSING, Michigan, Sept. 19 -- The Michigan State University Research Foundation issued the following news release:
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September 18, 2026
Common Vector Robotics Wins $425,000 at Grand Rapids PitchMI Semifinal
Detroit-based robotics company takes top prize in Defense & Aerospace competition and advances to statewide PitchMI Championship
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LANSING, Mich. (Sept. 15, 2026) -- Common Vector Robotics (CVR), a Detroit-based robotics manufacturer, took home $425,000 after winning the Defense & Aerospace semifinal of the PitchMI Startup Competition at the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre.
Led in
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EAST LANSING, Michigan, Sept. 19 -- The Michigan State University Research Foundation issued the following news release:
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September 18, 2026
Common Vector Robotics Wins $425,000 at Grand Rapids PitchMI Semifinal
Detroit-based robotics company takes top prize in Defense & Aerospace competition and advances to statewide PitchMI Championship
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LANSING, Mich. (Sept. 15, 2026) -- Common Vector Robotics (CVR), a Detroit-based robotics manufacturer, took home $425,000 after winning the Defense & Aerospace semifinal of the PitchMI Startup Competition at the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre.
Led inpartnership by the Michigan State University Research Foundation and Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), PitchMI is one of the nation's largest founder-focused startup competitions, designed to identify, support, and invest in some of Michigan's most promising startups.
A $500,000 statewide co-investment from Anchor Up Ventures, Kalamazoo Forward Ventures, JM Longyear and ID Ventures increased each semifinal prize from $250,000 to $375,000. In Grand Rapids, 20Fathoms, a Traverse City startup incubator and entrepreneurship hub, added another $50,000 to CVR's award, bringing the company's total winnings to $425,000.
"It's incredible to build in Michigan and to be with all my other fellow founders building in the same space," said Arnold Kadiu, CEO and co-founder of Common Vector Robotics. "I really wasn't expecting the check. This is going to be huge for our business to grow and get it to that next stage."
Building rugged robotics in Michigan
CVR builds rugged ground robots for critical operations on and off the battlefield. The company develops key components including battery packs, battery management systems, motor controllers, ECUs, and suspension systems in-house.
Its two signature products include:
* Ghostrunner: A high-speed, off-road robotic platform built for rugged field operations: distributed sensing, mobility, communications support, and field logistics. Engineered around the CVR vertically integrated hardware stack, Ghostrunner is built to operate where infrastructure cannot.
* GL-1: A 400 kg autonomous base built to carry your payload - robotic arm, sensor mast, or rack - into the field. It navigates by Visual SLAM, is supervised from a single command center, and a modular power payload up to 27 kWh runs the equipment it carries.
"Being in the PitchMI space is really exciting, just the energy of all these startups pitching," Kadiu said. "I hope for a lot more competitions like this, to allow a lot more companies to grow and succeed."
The Grand Rapids event was the first of four PitchMI industry semifinals happening across Michigan. Each semifinal winner advances to the statewide PitchMI Championship in spring 2027 for a chance at an additional $1 million.
Learn more about PitchMI and RSVP for the upcoming semifinal events at msufoundation.org/pitchmi.
* AI & Software: Kalamazoo on Sept. 22.
* Advanced Manufacturing, Materials, & Outdoors: Marquette on Sept. 24.
Healthcare & Life Sciences: Detroit on Oct. 1.
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Original text here: https://msufoundation.org/common-vector-robotics-wins-425000-at-grand-rapids-pitchmi-semifinal/
Hispanic Access Foundation: Rep. Barragan Re-Introduces Resolution to Establish Latino Conservation Week
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The Hispanic Access Foundation issued the following news release:
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Rep. Barragan Re-Introduces Resolution to Establish Latino Conservation Week
17 September 2026
As the nation celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month, Congresswoman Nanette Barragan (CA-44) re-introduced her resolution today to designate the third week of September as "Latino Conservation Week". "Latino Conservation Week" spotlights the Latino community's efforts to preserve and develop public spaces and outdoor recreation, as well as the importance of equitable access to outdoor spaces.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The Hispanic Access Foundation issued the following news release:
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Rep. Barragan Re-Introduces Resolution to Establish Latino Conservation Week
17 September 2026
As the nation celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month, Congresswoman Nanette Barragan (CA-44) re-introduced her resolution today to designate the third week of September as "Latino Conservation Week". "Latino Conservation Week" spotlights the Latino community's efforts to preserve and develop public spaces and outdoor recreation, as well as the importance of equitable access to outdoor spaces.
"Latino ConservationWeek recognizes the Latino community's longstanding connection to nature and commitment to protecting the environment," said Representative Barragan. "Every family deserves clean air, clean water, and access to parks and open spaces in their community. Latino communities have been strong voices for protecting the places we live, work, and enjoy, and this resolution celebrates that leadership. Protecting our public lands and natural spaces is a responsibility we all share, and it is a responsibility we must uphold for generations to come."
"For thirteen years, Latino Conservation Week has made visible what was already true: Latino leaders are stewards of this country's lands and waters," said Maite Arce, President & CEO of Hispanic Access Foundation. "We thank Representative Nanette Barragan for bringing this resolution to the House Floor. Official recognition matters because the future of public lands depends not only on access, but on whether Latino youth, families, and leaders have the agency to shape what happens next."
The resolution raises concerns about the significant environmental and health disparities experienced by Latino communities across the country, as well as their lack of access to urban parks, greenspaces, and the outdoors. Two out of three Latinos have stated that their health and the health of their families have been negatively affected by the high levels of air pollution and water contamination in their communities. Access and protection of natural spaces in Latino communities can help mitigate air pollution and extreme heat that exacerbates the pollution.
Representative Barragan reintroduced the resolution with the following cosponsors: Reps. Jim Costa (D-Calif.), Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.), Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.), Juan Vargas (D-Calif.), Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), Veronica Escobar (D-Texas), Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.), Andrea Salinas (D-Ore.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.), and Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.).
The resolution is supported by the Hispanic Access Foundation, Sierra Club, Sierra Nevada Alliance, Nature Forward, Sonoma Land Trust, BASE Landscape Architecture, Asociacion Guatemaltecos Sin Fronteras, Retos Servicious de Educacion Integral, PEACE New Jersey, Wasatch Community Gardens, Immigrant Network of Johnson County, Iglesia Bautista la Resurreccion, Tampa Bay Kaya Anglers, Wilderness Workshop, Jesse Miranda Center, ProShow Disc Jockey Service, Iglesia Amistad, Huellas Latinas, Environmental Justice Journalism Initiative, Immigrant Welcome Network of Johnson County, Iglesia Aliento de Vida, San Diego Bird Alliance, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Templo El Salvador de las Asambleas de Dios, City of Olympia, ID Latino Conservation Week Planning Committee, Latinos Aventureros de las Carolinas, Purpose en Espanol, Vail Valley Mountain Trails Alliance, Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project, Nature Center of Watsonville, HawkWatch International, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, My Future Pathways, Regeneracion - Pajaro Valley Climate Action, City of Pharr, Moms Clean Air Force - EcoMadres, Azul, GreenLatinos, Leave No Trace, Centro CHA Inc, Transformados En Cristo/FMC, and Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana.
For the resolution text, click here.
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Original text here: https://www.hispanicaccess.org/news-releases/3141-rep-barragan-re-introduces-resolution-to-establish-latino-conservation-week
Wisconsin Employee Files Class Action Lawsuit to Defend Wisconsin State Law That Guarantees Workplace Freedom
SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, Sept. 18 -- The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation posted the following news release:
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Wisconsin Employee Files Class Action Lawsuit to Defend Wisconsin State Law That Guarantees Workplace Freedom
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Suit: Outdated federal precedents wrongfully permit union officials to block workers from stopping union dues payments
Milwaukee, WI (September 18, 2026) - Caryn Johnson, an employee of Olympic Companies, has filed a new class action lawsuit against both International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) District Council 7 and her employer. The lawsuit
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, Sept. 18 -- The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation posted the following news release:
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Wisconsin Employee Files Class Action Lawsuit to Defend Wisconsin State Law That Guarantees Workplace Freedom
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Suit: Outdated federal precedents wrongfully permit union officials to block workers from stopping union dues payments
Milwaukee, WI (September 18, 2026) - Caryn Johnson, an employee of Olympic Companies, has filed a new class action lawsuit against both International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) District Council 7 and her employer. The lawsuitstates that the union and employer continue to deduct union dues from Johnson's paycheck after she provided written notice of termination of her union membership, which violates Wisconsin state law.
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin with free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, and represents the latest in a line of violations that union officials have committed against Johnson. In June, Johnson and her Foundation staff attorneys filed charges at the National Labor Relations Board stating that union officials falsely claimed union membership was mandatory.
Johnson argues in the lawsuit that previous federal court decisions limiting Wisconsin's state Right to Work protections were decided incorrectly, and that she and others in similar situations deserve the full workplace freedoms Wisconsin law provides.
#Federal Courts Incorrectly Override State Laws Protecting Workers' Right to Stop Union Dues
Wisconsin is a Right to Work state, meaning that employees such as Johnson are not required to join or pay dues to a union in order to get or keep a job. Wisconsin's state Right to Work law is designed to be comprehensive, proactively guaranteeing that if an employee wants to stop payroll deductions of union dues, the employer must honor that request within 30 days.
This law should prevent union bosses in Wisconsin from imposing unilateral and arbitrary "window periods" to keep independent-minded employees from stopping dues payments except during a narrow time period established by union officials. However, in 2018, a divided panel of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decided in Allen that Wisconsin's state law was preempted by federal law, citing the 1971 Sea Pak Supreme Court decision.
In Johnson's case, local IUPAT officials told her that she had to wait until a 10-day period in February 2027 to stop paying dues, despite the fact that Johnson was illegally coerced into the union in the first place and Wisconsin law protects her right to choose when to stop dues payments. Now, on behalf of other workers subject to the union's arbitrary window periods, Johnson is arguing that Allen and Sea Pak were wrongly decided, and Wisconsin's state law is a legitimate state protection for workplace freedoms.
Previously, the issue was presented to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019 in the Allen case. However, Democrat Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, almost immediately after being elected, withdrew the state's petition to the U.S. Supreme Court asking the High Court to review and overturn the Allen decision. Reports show union officials gave Kaul's campaign hundreds of thousands of dollars in direct contributions, with union affiliates being his seven largest contributors.
"Wisconsin's popular Right to Work law is designed to fully protect workers from being forced to pay union dues against their will, yet that right is being improperly limited by union officials using arbitrary 'window periods' to stifle workers' attempts to stop dues," commented National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix. "We are proud to assist Ms. Johnson as she fights for not only her own rights, but to defend the workplace freedoms of all Wisconsinites."
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The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable organization providing free legal aid to employees whose human or civil rights have been violated by compulsory unionism abuses. The Foundation, which can be contacted toll-free at 1-800-336-3600, assists thousands of employees in about 200 cases nationwide per year.
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Original text here: https://www.nrtw.org/news/johnson-wi-class-action-lawsuit-09182026/
WLF Opposes Hospital's Attempt to Use State Law to Enforce Federal 340B Drug-Pricing Requirements
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Washington Legal Foundation issued the following news release:
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WLF Opposes Hospital's Attempt to Use State Law to Enforce Federal 340B Drug-Pricing Requirements
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Washington, DC-Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) today filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire opposing a request by Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital for a preliminary injunction against Eli Lilly and Company. In its brief, WLF argues that the hospital's lawsuit is an impermissible attempt to privately
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Washington Legal Foundation issued the following news release:
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WLF Opposes Hospital's Attempt to Use State Law to Enforce Federal 340B Drug-Pricing Requirements
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Washington, DC-Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) today filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire opposing a request by Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital for a preliminary injunction against Eli Lilly and Company. In its brief, WLF argues that the hospital's lawsuit is an impermissible attempt to privatelyenforce the federal 340B drug-pricing program through state-law causes of action, despite Congress's refusal to create a private right of action under the statute. WLF filed the brief with the pro bono assistance of Hollis, New Hampshire attorney Randall B. Clark.
The dispute arises from Lilly's requirement that healthcare providers participating in the 340B program provide certain claims data to receive program discounts. Lilly adopted the condition to help verify compliance with federal program rules designed to prevent duplicate discounts and improper diversion of discounted drugs. After Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital declined to provide the requested data, Lilly suspended the hospital's access to 340B pricing, prompting it to sue Lilly and seek injunctive relief under various state-law theories.
WLF argues that the Supreme Court's 2011 decision in Astra USA, Inc. v. Santa Clara County forecloses the hospital's claims because Congress vested exclusive enforcement authority over 340B pricing disputes in the Department of Health and Human Services rather than private litigants. WLF argues that allowing hospitals to pursue state-law claims based on alleged violations of 340B would undermine Congress's enforcement scheme and risk inconsistent judicial rulings across the country. Apart from Astra, WLF argues that federal law permits the claims-data conditions disputed by the hospital and that claims data is essential to ensuring program integrity.
Since 1977, Washington Legal Foundation has preserved and defended America's free-enterprise system by litigating, educating, and advocating for free-market principles, a limited and accountable government, individual and business civil liberties, and the rule of law.
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Original text here: https://www.wlf.org/2026/09/18/communicating/wlf-opposes-hospitals-attempt-to-use-state-law-to-enforce-federal-340b-drug-pricing-requirements/
Reason Foundation Issues Commentary: Ratepayer Protection Act Protects Against Higher Household Energy Bills When Data Centers Connect to the Grid
LOS ANGELES, California, Sept. 18 -- The Reason Foundation issued the following commentary:
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The Ratepayer Protection Act protects against higher household energy bills when data centers connect to the grid
The bill offers an economically rational approach to federal advisory standards for a new class of energy customers larger than those seen before.
Max Gulker
Managing Director
Caden Rosenbaum
Managing Director of Technology Policy
September 17, 2026
Data centers should be regulated by the same laws, policies, and rules that apply to other commercial enterprises, with exceptions
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LOS ANGELES, California, Sept. 18 -- The Reason Foundation issued the following commentary:
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The Ratepayer Protection Act protects against higher household energy bills when data centers connect to the grid
The bill offers an economically rational approach to federal advisory standards for a new class of energy customers larger than those seen before.
Max Gulker
Managing Director
Caden Rosenbaum
Managing Director of Technology Policy
September 17, 2026
Data centers should be regulated by the same laws, policies, and rules that apply to other commercial enterprises, with exceptionsmade only to address fundamental differences. The power demands of the largest data centers are a key difference. The House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act yesterday, legislation that would set federal advisory standards that data centers pay for their own infrastructure upgrades to connect to electric grids. This act takes a common-sense approach by pinpointing a specific problem caused by the largest data centers and correcting it.
All energy customers are part of a network. They share the benefits of system upgrades, like increased generation and transmission capacity, but they also share the costs, distributed among each ratepayer. Public utilities traditionally roll these costs into the rates all business and residential customers pay, meaning they are shared across the grid. There is no perfect way to allocate such costs across a shared network, but this system has worked well enough, and for long enough, for the relatively small electric loads demanded by customers within a whole system that this model has persisted.
However, the largest data centers have higher relative power demand. Hyperscale data centers routinely demand between 500 megawatts (MW) and 1 gigawatt (GW) of power. For comparison, auto factories demand between 10 and 30 MW, and the largest traditional manufacturers, such as steel mills, demand between 100 and 200 MW. Connecting hyperscale data centers to the grid can require large discrete investments in grid infrastructure, which can put upward pressure on household rates if distributed across all customers.
The standards included in the Ratepayer Protection Act would change how these costs apply to data centers demanding over 100 MW at a single site, specifying that developers must pay the "full, incremental costs" of upgrades needed to connect, including those for generation, transmission, and distribution. It also stipulates that if large data centers shut down early, they'll cover any remaining unpaid amount.
The standards contained within the legislation would currently apply only to large-load customers that "require electric energy primarily to operate information technology infrastructure and related systems pertaining to data storage and computational applications and services," effectively targeting only data centers. Congress could improve the bill by dropping this provision and making the standards applicable to all future customers demanding more power than the 100 MW threshold.
The Ratepayer Protection Act offers an economically rational approach toward federal advisory standards for a new class of energy customers larger than those seen before. However, more fundamental fixes to our energy infrastructure will be necessary to meet the growing demand of data centers and all other consumers. In the long run, there is no substitute for expanding power generation capacity, both from public utilities and private sources. Reducing regulatory barriers to large-load customers generating their own power outside the public grid is an essential step for lawmakers to take toward the goal of meeting rising future demand.
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Max Gulker, Ph.D., is managing director of technology policy at Reason Foundation.
Caden Rosenbaum is the managing director of technology policy at Reason Foundation.
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Original text here: https://reason.org/commentary/the-ratepayer-protection-act-protects-against-higher-household-energy-bills-when-data-centers-connect-to-the-grid/
Court Strikes Down Trump's EPA Cancellation of $7B Solar for All Program
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 18 -- Conservation Law Foundation issued the following news release:
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Court Strikes Down Trump's EPA Cancellation of $7B Solar for All Program
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September 18, 2026 (Boston, MA) - A federal judge has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency unlawfully canceled the $7 billion Solar for All program, striking down the agency's decision to end a nationwide program designed to lower electricity bills and bring affordable solar power to families and communities across the country.
"Clean, affordable power like solar shouldn't be a closed-door luxury," said
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BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 18 -- Conservation Law Foundation issued the following news release:
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Court Strikes Down Trump's EPA Cancellation of $7B Solar for All Program
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September 18, 2026 (Boston, MA) - A federal judge has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency unlawfully canceled the $7 billion Solar for All program, striking down the agency's decision to end a nationwide program designed to lower electricity bills and bring affordable solar power to families and communities across the country.
"Clean, affordable power like solar shouldn't be a closed-door luxury," saidAlex St. Pierre, vice president for environmental justice at Conservation Law Foundation (CLF). "Solar for All was built to open that door, and EPA tried to slam it shut. Today's ruling pushes it back open. Communities have waited long enough. Nearly every family is looking for ways to cut their energy bill. These dollars should go where Congress intended: toward lower energy bills, less climate pollution, good jobs, and cleaner air."
"The court ruled the Trump Administration never should have terminated Solar for All because Congress intended it to continue, and EPA broke the law when it killed the program and pocketed the money," said Southern Environmental Law Center Senior Attorney Nick Torrey. "Electricity bills are skyrocketing, so low-cost solar projects -which guarantee big savings -are needed now more than ever. Today's victory means EPA must stop sitting on the $7 billion in funding for this program and start getting it out into communities to provide hardworking American families much-needed relief."
"Today's ruling confirms what we have argued from the beginning: EPA cannot erase a $7 billion program that Congress created and funded. For more than a year, families and communities have seen higher energy bills while billions of dollars intended to lower electricity costs sat out of reach. Today's decision makes clear that EPA unlawfully terminated the Solar for All Program," said Jillian Blanchard, Senior Vice President of Climate Change and Environmental Justice at L4GG.
In 2024, the EPA awarded $7 billion for "Solar for All," estimating the program would reach more than 900,000 households, save families $350 million a year on electricity bills, and support 200,000 jobs and workforce training opportunities.
In August 2025, the Trump administration abruptly canceled the program before much of that funding could reach communities. CLF, the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG), and the Lawyers Committee for Rhode Island, filed the lawsuit last October on behalf of workers, businesses, nonprofits, and individuals harmed by EPA's cancellation. Plaintiffs include the Rhode Island AFL-CIO, Rhode Island Center for Justice, Solar United Neighbors, an individual homeowner, and solar businesses.
The full ruling can be read here.
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Original text here: https://www.clf.org/newsroom/court-strikes-down-trumps-epa-cancellation-of-7b-solar-for-all-program/
