Thom's blog
States Rolling Back Solar Incentives As the Planet Heats Up
As the Koch brothers wage war on solar power, is it time to strip the profit out of the utility business once and for all? As the New York Times reports, the slight decline in home solar installations over the past year is in large part due to a wave of legislation aimed at crushing net metering.
Net-metering allows people with solar panels on their home to sell the extra power those panels generate back to the grid in exchange for credit.
Most of the anti-net metering laws currently making their way through state houses across the country are based on model legislation crafted by ALEC - the right wing group responsible for stand your ground laws, right to work for less laws, and voter suppression ID laws.
Isn't this a perfect example of why we need to decentralize and localize utility companies - and ban monopoly utilities from lobbying and other political activity?
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10:30pm...
Thanks to Wall Street, Average Joe Can Now Bet Against America
(check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
The Big Picture: Thanks to Wall Street, Average Joe Can Now Bet Against America
Big Picture Interview: Economist Dr. Richard Wolff - The Lottery Economy
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown/Democracy At Work
Big Picture Panel: Why Do GOPers Think College Is Bad?
- Bryan Pruitt, RedState
- Doug Christian, Political Commentator
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Would You Have Sex With a Robot? No, Really...?!
Hour Three: Why He is Quitting the NRA
- USMC Vet (Ret'd) Joe Plenzler.
Article: " 2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Kushner Tried To Get A YUGE Bailout From Qatar…
Case: " Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010). " If taken seriously, our colleagues’ assumption that the identity of a speaker has no relevance to the Government’s ability to regulate political speech would lead to some remarkable conclusions. Such an assumption would have accorded the propaganda broadcasts to our troops by “Tokyo Rose” during World War II the same protection as speech by Allied commanders." - Justice Stevens.
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"
And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Will TrumpCare Pass the Senate?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
John Fugelsang - Is Trump Turning US Into Rogue Nation?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Trump Gave a Speech on Western Values Then Ignored the West
On tonight’s Big Picture, Thom talks with John Fugelsang about the ‘G-19’s flank over Trump’s denial of climate change. Then he talks with Valerie Ervin and Dave McCulloch about Senator McCain saying the republican health plan may be dead on arrival, moves from U.S. states to roll back on solar power initiatives, and again their take of the G20-minus-Trump reaffirming the Paris accords to protect the Earth’s climate.
Republicans' "Voter Fraud" Witch Hunt Has Mostly Turned Up Trump Voters
A Conservative Aussie Journalist Gives a Scathing Assessment of Trump at G20 Summit
Has Trump Set the Impeachment Bar So High it Will Never Be Reached Again?
Trump at G20 Was Like the Weird Kid in School No One Wanted to Sit With at Lunch
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