Along Those Lines: The Electric Co-op Policy Outlook in a Rapidly Changing Washington

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The 2024 elections were pivotal for policies affecting electric cooperatives. President Donald Trump’s victory and Republicans’ majorities in Congress could bring major changes to environmental rules, permitting requirements, funding programs and tax incentives that touch on co-ops’ daily operations.

This episode is sponsored by Power & Tel.

On this episode of Along Those Lines, we’ll talk with Louis Finkel, NRECA’s senior vice president of Government Relations, about what those changes could be and what they mean for co-ops. He also offers tips on how co-op leaders can engage with policymakers and ventures a guess on where we could be a year from now in the policy space.

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