Communities United For Action

There’s a lot of rain coming, Cincinnati area folks! If you experience a sewer backup, we recommend reporting it immediately to MSD. Taking pictures and video of what’s happening in your basement, even on outside sewer inlets, to show document your backup will help you and MSD identify if our combined sewer overflows caused your backup. Document as much as you can inside and out, especially what’s being damaged. Here is the website with information about how to report a sewer backup:

Sewer Backup (SBU) program - Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati

Organizing gets the goods! Congrats on this victory to the tenants, Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition, and Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati! 🙌

Woodlawn City Council member and community activist Michelle Starr said the flat delivery fee structure is unfair to lower energy using residents, because she says the fixed charges come with additional delivery rider increases, and represent a much higher percentage of their total bills compared to customers in larger homes who use higher amounts of energy.

"Duke applies a fixed flat rate to every customer, and it is not fair to those who use lower amounts of energy and are already struggling to pay," Starr said.

Starr is calling on regulators to consider a usage-based model for delivery fees.

"I am asking them to consider fairer billing," Starr said, "based on usage."

Erica L Black-Johnson, of the group Communities United for Action, said the complexity of Duke Energy bills is a broader problem for many families.

"There's so much on your Duke bill," Black-Johnson said. "The problem is, very few of us, if any of us, know what all of that other stuff is. We're just flabbergasted, like why?"

'It is not fair' | Why consumer groups are challenging Duke Energy's new rate hike request Duke Energy has filed for another rate hike in Ohio, this time on the electric delivery fee. But a number of consumer and citizens groups are fighting it, despite the fact it won't raise rates much.

Statehouse alert: they’re trying to make it harder for people to be able to vote by mail. Call your representatives today and tell them that every eligible voter should have an easy way to vote, not more barriers.

And this isn’t even the new electric rate increase they’re proposing, or the additional riders the Public Utilities Commission allowed them to add in the last couple years!

The Ohio Supreme Court is permitting an increase in natural gas bills for Duke Energy customers across southwest Ohio to go forward. Here's what we know: https://www.wlwt.com/article/ohio-supreme-court-approves-natural-gas-rate-hike/71512436

Listen to Andrea Baker & Alison Kromer on Boiling Point on WAIF 88.3 FM here! We talk sewers, stormwater, Duke bills, and more.

Episode 91: From Sewer Systems to the County Commission - Boiling Point Cincinnati In hour one, Michelle sits down with Alison Kromer and Andrea Baker from Communities United for Action (CUFA) to discuss the organization’s role in the Greater Cincinnati community. They break down how CUFA is advocating for residents and influenc...