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Utilities, NARUC Take Aim At Pentagon Power Play

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Thursday, May 1st, 2008

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By Chris Holly Electric utilities and state utility regulators have united in blasting language in the 2009 defense- authorization bill that would allow Defense Department facilities to sidestep state laws governing the provision of electricity service and shop for power, saying the language would shift costs onto households and small businesses already burdened by high electricity costs. In an April 25 letter to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the committee's senior Republican,…

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