NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UTILITY CONSUMER ADVOCATES Resolution No. 2008-02 URGING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO PRESERVE HISTORIC POWERS OF STATES TO PROTECT WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONSUMERS; IF FEDERAL WIRELESS CONSUMER PROTECTION STANDARDS ARE ADOPTED, THEY SHOULD SERVE AS A REGULATORY "FLOOR." [...]
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UTILITY CONSUMER ADVOCATES RESOLUTION 2008-05 ENERGY EFFICIENCY PRINCIPLES OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UTILITY CONSUMER ADVOCATES Whereas, the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates (NASUCA) has long supported cost-effective energy efficiency programs as [...]
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UTILITY CONSUMER ADVOCATES Resolution 2008-03 The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Resolution WHEREAS the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is a federally-funded, state-administered energy program that has been in existence since 1981; [...]
The National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates Resolution 2007- 11 OPPOSING PROPOSALS FOR THE ADOPTION OF A NUMBERS-BASED OR CONNECTIONS-BASED UNIVERSAL SERVICE CONTRIBUTION MECHANISM WHEREAS, For more than five years, parties have been proposing that the current mechanism for [...]
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UTILITY CONSUMER ADVOCATES Resolution No. 2007-10 URGING REFORM OF “THIRD PARTY VERIFICATION” Whereas, “slamming” is the practice of changing a consumer’s telecommunications service provider without authorization; and Whereas, the practice has been a profitable business for [...]
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UTILITY CONSUMER ADVOCATES Resolution No. 2007-09 URGING REFORM OF THE FORBEARANCE PROCESS Whereas, Section 10(a) of the Telecommunications Act (47 U.S.C. § 160(a)) includes a three-part test that governs whether the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) shall [...]
The National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates Resolution 2007- 12 Reaffirming and Providing Direction For NASUCA’s Participation in EPA’s Total Coliform Rule/Distribution System Federal Advisory Committee WHEREAS, in July, 2007, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) convened the [...]
The National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates Resolution 2007-08 Urging Congress to Close the “Enron Loophole” in the Commodities Exchange Act to Permit the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to Have Regulatory Authority Over All Natural Gas Exchanges WHEREAS, The [...]
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UTILITY CONSUMER ADVOCATES RESOLUTION 2007-13 Urging FERC to Expand its Investigation of Organized Wholesale Electricity Markets to Include Consideration Whether Rates Established in RTO/ISO Markets are Just and Reasonable Whereas, the Federal Power Act Section [...]
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UTILITY CONSUMER ADVOCATES RESOLUTION 2007-04 RESOLUTION ON GLOBAL WARMING WHEREAS, NASUCA has been on record since 1990 as acknowledging that, based on reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there was “a growing [...]