Press Releases

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5/6/26

27 Public Interest Organizations Call on Indiana Local Governments to Enact Data Center Moratorium

27 public interest organizations are urging local governments across Indiana to immediately enact a moratorium on new data center development, permitting, and construction to allow adequate time for reasonable policies and regulations to be enacted...

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4/15/26

CenterPoint Urged Federal Government Not to Reissue Emergency Order on Costly Coal Plant, Letter Shows

The U.S. Department of Energy ignored CenterPoint’s pleas not to force its coal plant to continue operating despite the utility warning that long outages and expensive upgrades would be needed that were “neither practical nor financially responsible...

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1/22/26

Environmental, Consumer Groups Challenge Trump’s Unlawful Coal Plant Extensions

"The federal government has invented a grid reliability crisis in a transparent and illegal attempt to commandeer uneconomic, dilapidated power plants, force them to operate, and stick us with the bill." - CAC's Ben Inskeep

12/9/25

ICV, CAC Unveil Policy Plan to Lower Energy Costs for Hoosiers

Indiana Conservation Voters and Citizens Action Coalition today unveiled a straightforward plan to address Indiana’s worsening energy affordability crisis.

11/10/25

CAC Urges Rejection of I&M's More Than $7 Billion Generation Plan for Amazon and Google AI Data Centers

I&M’s plan does not follow the 80% cost assignment to data centers as promised by the legislator and administration.

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10/16/25

CAC Urges Rejection of AES Indiana's Sweetheart Deal With City of Indianapolis, Large Electric Users

CAC calls on the IURC to reject an unbalanced proposed settlement agreement filed yesterday in AES Indiana’s rate case. The settlement would result in a 6.51% base rate increase for residential customers, while commercial and industrial customers only...

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9/22/25

Stop Mike's Hikes

CAC today launched “Stop Mike’s Hikes,” a new accountability campaign calling on Gov. Mike Braun to answer for skyrocketing electricity bills and change misguided energy decisions that are hurting Hoosier families and small businesses.

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9/9/25

IURC Must Consider Affordability in AES Rate Case

CAC filed testimony in the AES rate case urging the IURC to take strong action to protect residential ratepayers experiencing inexcusably poor service at increasingly unaffordable rates.

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7/22/25

Monopoly Electric Utilities Slam Hoosiers with Historic Bill Hikes

A damning new analysis by Citizens Action Coalition (CAC) exposes how Indiana’s monopoly utilities have imposed the most severe electric bill increases on residential customers in at least two decades — with some families paying nearly $50 more a...

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5/9/25

IURC Must Reject Expensive & Risky Duke Gas Plant

CAC and Vote Solar, with the assistance of Earthjustice, filed testimony recommending that the IURC approve the retirement of Duke's Cayuga coal units, reject the proposed natural gas units, and instruct Duke Energy to expand distributed energy...

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