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Metro Detroit energy activists push for legislation to hold utilities accountable during power outages (planetdetroit.org)

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“The idea here is we want our utility companies to hire more utility workers to fix the issues as they happen,” Abraham Aiyash told the crowd. “We want them to actually invest in retrofitting and upgrading and making sure that our grid is climate resilient, so [the utility company] can’t blame a little bit of wind and a little bit of rain which shouldn’t be taking out people’s power in the first place.”

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