PHILADELPHIA -- A group of 30 Quakers and others were ushered out of PECO headquarters where they held a pray-in today, calling for the company to get out of the business of climate destruction and to invest instead in local green energy and new jobs. The peaceful worshipers said they were following a Quaker tradition of confronting injustice with the belief that God’s light can open a new path.

PHILADELPHIA -- At PECO’s headquarters today, customers lined up to pay just one penny toward their bills - symbolizing the company’s “small change” plans toward supporting the growing clean energy sector and cleaning up its carbon pollution. Green jobs campaigners say the utility has failed to take real steps toward sourcing local solar power, which combines energy bill savings and healthier communities with more jobs than dirty energy sources, such as gas or oil.

PHILADELPHIA -- Today, PA Rep. Donna Bullock (D-Philadelphia) is announcing her introduction of “PA Solar for All,” a bill that would bring utility-owned solar energy to some low-income customers in the state.

“The Power Local Green Jobs campaign applauds Rep. Bullock and all the community members pushing forward green energy and green jobs. But PECO must also take this opportunity to announce how the company will rapidly get out of the business of climate change by adopting 20% solar energy by 2025 while creating local jobs,” said Eileen Flanagan, board chair of Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT).

ALLENTOWN, PA- The Power Local Green Jobs campaign infiltrated the conference room for a committee meeting of the Energy Association of Pennsylvania in Allentown today. The green jobs advocates planted flyers calling out the failures of PECO CEO Craig Adams, a board member of the lobbyist group, for neglecting to transition PECO to green, affordable energy.

Philadelphia, PA -- A new report released by the watchdog Energy and Policy Institute this week has revealed that electric utilities clearly understood the impacts of climate change 30 years ago.

Philadelphia utility PECO is represented by the Edison Electric Institute, which is shown by the study to have been key in pushing policies hostile to solar and renewable energy, despite recognizing the challenges of climate change as early as 1988.

PHILADELPHIA- Well-worn but jubilant, a band of interfaith walkers converged with around 200 citizens, prominent Philadelphia clergy, and the national activists Bill McKibben and Bishop Dwayne Royster to walk from City Hall to PECO today. This was the last mile of the 100-mile Walk for Green Jobs and Justice, which left from North Philly two weeks ago and circled through PECO’s service territory, calling for solar job growth and economic justice. 

Carrying their own brilliant yellow sun, about a dozen walkers will gather outside Croydon Generating Station at 9:00 am on Friday, May 19. They say that installing solar on area homes, schools, and churches will produce more local jobs than the oil-fired plant, and PECO should purchase more of its electricity locally.

Carrying their own brilliant yellow sun, about a dozen walkers are making their way through Montgomery County this week, on a trek for a new energy future. Ranging from millennials to a 79 year-old great grandpa, they will be joined by local congregations calling for solar job growth in the area.

A watchdog group has shown how the Edison Electric Institute, a trade organization of investor-owned utilities including PECO, has used money derived from billpayers' pockets for legislative and policy work that should be charged to shareholders instead.

CHESTER- A group of interfaith activists walked from Eddystone Generating Station to the Chester Exploration Zone today to say PECO should run its grid on local solar built in cities where unemployment is high. Burning oil or gas for electricity is safest far away from where the power gets used. But solar technology can put the power directly in the community that needs it, bringing jobs, savings, and cleaner air.