A Big Week for School Choice

• Common Sense Weekly
• May 7, 2025

Welcome to Common Sense Weekly! This is the Commonwealth Foundation’s weekly news roundup of policy issues debated in Harrisburg and across Pennsylvania.Have you seen our recent social media videos?…

Blog

Shapiro ‘Price Cap’ Could Hike Electricity Bills

• Gordon Tomb
• April 28, 2025

Originally published by Delaware Valley Journal. Gov. Josh Shapiro’s proposal to cap electricity prices could, perversely, lead to higher customer bills and a greater risk of blackouts, according to America’s…

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Energy

Avoiding Deadly Blackouts

• David Wojick
• March 25, 2024

Summary Pennsylvania urgently needs a plan to restore grid reliability and prevent electricity blackouts from extreme cold weather. Winter Storm Elliot in 2022 almost brought widespread blackouts, but it was…

Fact Sheet

Taxes & Economy

Press Pause on Clean Power Plan

• Elizabeth Stelle, Gordon Tomb
• February 16, 2016

In a historic move, the US Supreme Court stayed the EPA's Clean Power Plan, otherwise known as Obama's energy tax or stealth cap and trade. The court’s actions halt implementation…

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