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NRECA and leaders of large generation and transmission co-ops want the EPA to fully repeal a greenhouse gas rule for power plants that limits co-ops’ ability to operate new gas-fired power plants more than 40% of the time. (Photo By: Earl Stuart)

Electric cooperatives on Wednesday continued urging the Environmental Protection Agency to fully repeal

Oregon’s Beacon Broadband is expanding its networks through a state program supported by the Treasury Department’s Capital Projects Fund. (Photo By: Keyline Construction)

With help from NRECA Broadband, co-ops providin...

Harney Electric Cooperative lineworkers replace poles damaged in the massive Oregon wildfires. (Photo Courtesy: Harney EC)

As massive wildfires scorch the Pacific Northwest, electric cooperatives have been working tirelessly to keep the power on for their members even as some co-op employees have lost their own homes to the flames.

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ARLINGTON, Va. – National Rural Electric Cooperative Association CEO Jim Matheson today issued the following statement on the confirmation of Glen Smith as Under Secretary of Rural Development at the USDA.

“The partnership between electric cooperatives, USDA Rural Development and the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is critically important. We look for...

With over 200 electric co-ops in the broadband space, NRECA says any updates to the Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund must not leave rural America behind. (Photo By: Preston Keres)

Any reforms to a national program to subsidize telecommunications networks in high-cost areas must ensure that rural residents “are not relegated to second-tier broadba...