MACo Winter Conference sponsor Schneider Electric wants to help you drive revenue and boost economic development with their latest innovations in energy performance contracting. Utilizing Innovations in Energy Performance Contracting to Achieve Community Goals Are you sitting on an asset? It’s time to stop looking at your utility bills as a sunk cost. The business case for performance contracting & alternative financing is strong – it’s not just about energy, it’s about funding big ambitions!…

American Water, a sponsor of MACo's Winter Conference, recently shared a post from their New Jersey affiliate on tips for proper disposal of cooking mediums to protect home plumbing and sewers.   From American Water's website: Next week, Thanksgiving will kick off the holiday season, bringing friends and loved ones together to celebrate, bond, and most of all eat. Many hours are spent cooking the perfect feast, but not much thought is given to cleaning…

Robbins, Geller, Rudman & Dowd LLP, one of the world's leading complex litigation firms, has been secured by Frederick and Montgomery counties in the growing class-action suit against electronic cigarette company Juul Labs Inc. and Altria Group, which is a 35 percent stakeholder in Juul and the parent company of Phillip Morris USA. The two Maryland counties join the state of California, and New York, which both filed suits against the company last week, according…