Inundated with these services. facebook owns instagram. google owns every conceivable thing you touch on the internet. i don t know how you overcome that necessarily. it s going to come from civic engagement. this report does a very good job of touching on this. you need to do this from the government level or just from the local level. it needs to overcome the infrastructure that was built on the internet. if they can break through it and then one local community at a time and perhaps, perhaps, you start seeing the breaking of this a little bit or people taking a little more control with these algorithms. i appreciate you trying to break through the noise with something that s very important. ben collins, thank you for helping us unpack it. mid-term news before we go to break, another democratic house retirement. congresswoman kathleen rice announced today she will not seek re-election. her south shore long island district is a d plus 8. her decision means three of the
Committee Reports
Energy Subcommittee of the House Energy, Utilities, and Telecommunications Committee
The Energy Subcommittee of the House Energy, Utilities, and Telecommunications Committee, chaired by Representative Chuck Martin (R-Alpharetta), met this morning to consider two measures.
HB 76, authored by Representative John Carson (R-Marietta), amends O.C.G.A. § 46-4-164 to increase the percentage limitation of EMC investments in a gas affiliate. Current law allows investments up to 15%. This bill increases that amount to 60%. The subcommittee took no testimony on the bill and moved the bill DO PASS.
HB 150, authored by Representative Bruce Williamson (R-Monroe), amends O.C.G.A. § 46-1-6 to prohibit local governmental entities from adopting policies that prohibit the connection or reconnection of any utility service based on the source of energy or fuel. Members of the committee including Reps. David Dryer (D-Atlanta) and Karla Drenner (D-Avondale Estates) expressed concern