The Washington Post profiled Sharon Garcia, a single mom from Pueblo, Colorado, last year who suffers from a state policy that shuttered coal plants in favor of costlier, less reliable fuel sources. Ms. Garcia and her family—emblematic of so many other U.S. families—are forced to live in darkness at times, just to conserve energy so as not to face yet another sky-high electricity bill.

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