We had a chance to catch up with campus team and U.S. PIRG alum Rich Williams, who currently serves as the chief of staff for the Office of Postsecondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Here’s more about him, in his own words.

Tax credits have helped lower the cost of wind and solar power over the last decade, bringing renewables in reach for more Americans and boosting the clean energy market. The Build Back Better Act is being actively negotiated in Congress right now through the budget reconciliation process, and the latest draft includes ten-year extensions of clean energy credits, which would be the biggest injection into clean energy America has ever made.

In footage from our archives, alumni Dave Hamilton and Daniel Silverman share their story of U.S. PIRG’s campaign to ban space billboards in the ‘90s.