LA Utility’s CEO Once Touted Commitment To Energy Transition And ‘Equity.’ Now Her Dept Is Being Sued.
Janice Quiñones, CEO and chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), calls the department’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and climate change agenda ahead of its struggles to address ongoing issues. It focused extensively on initiatives. Fires devastated the Los Angeles area. Quiñones took the top job at LADWP in […]
A historic Black community fights to block Arizona utility’s expansion plan
This story was originally Guardian is reproduced here as part of the climate desk collaboration. A handful of weary residents gathered in the windowless Randolph Church to ponder the power company’s latest effort to expand the plant. This is a polluting gas-fired power plant next to a community that state regulators have blocked for environmental […]
