Utilities use customers' money to advance fossil fuels. This coalition aims to stop them.

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Utilities use customers' money to advance fossil fuels. This coalition aims to stop them.

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A group of advocates and Democratic senators gathered in Washington, DC, on Tuesday to decry utilities’ practice of spending customers’ money to advance a pro-fossil fuel agenda. “Americans are already paying the price of climate change,” said Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) at a gathering at the US Capitol. “They shouldn’t have to pay the…