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Lights Out in the Cold: Reforming Utility Shut-Off Policies as If Human Rights Matter

Lights Out in the Cold: Reforming Utility Shut-Off Policies as If Human Rights Matter

Full Title: Lights Out in the Cold: Reforming Utility Shut-Off Policies as If Human Rights Matter
Author(s): Marcus Franklin, Caroline Kurtz
Publisher(s): NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program
Publication Date: March 12, 2017
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Description (excerpt):

This report provides a comprehensive overview of common utility shut-off policies employed by utilities nationwide, explores critical issues that should be considered in the development of disconnection policies, and calls for concrete action toward establishing policies that protect the well-being of all utility customers and the eventual elimination of utility disconnections.

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