{"id":248787,"date":"2024-04-13T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/the-downballot-races-that-could-transform-energy-policy-in-arizona-and-nebraska\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T14:40:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T14:40:32","slug":"the-downballot-races-that-could-transform-energy-policy-in-arizona-and-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/the-downballot-races-that-could-transform-energy-policy-in-arizona-and-nebraska\/","title":{"rendered":"The\u00a0downballot races that could transform energy policy in Arizona and Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\"><em>This story was originally published by Capital &amp; Main.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">When it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and watershed protection, several downballot elections this year in a handful of states could have a major effect in the transition away from fossil fuel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">The media tend to ignore such contests, which attract far fewer voters than big federal and state elections. But board members of public utilities in Arizona and Nebraska are up for election in coming months, and the results of those contests could potentially transform energy policy for millions of Americans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">The elections come amid\u00a0growing concern\u00a0about the role of money in such races and in the wake of headline-grabbing\u00a0corruption scandals\u00a0at utilities across the country. Utility fraud and corruption \u2014 in Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio, and South Carolina \u2014 has cost&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/energy\/the-down-ballot-races-that-could-transform-energy-policy-in-arizona-and-nebraska\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story was originally published by Capital &amp; Main. When it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and watershed protection, several downballot elections this year in a handful of states could have a major effect in the transition away from fossil fuel.\u00a0 The media tend to ignore such contests, which attract far fewer voters than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":248788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The\u00a0downballot races that could transform energy policy in Arizona and Nebraska - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/energy\/the-down-ballot-races-that-could-transform-energy-policy-in-arizona-and-nebraska\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The\u00a0downballot races that could transform energy policy in Arizona and Nebraska\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This story was originally published by Capital &amp; Main. 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