Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
A petition from three Republican lawmakers is novel: all three lawmakers have expressed skepticism about the reality of human-caused global warming, yet in their brief they say that the political system, not the courts, should deal with the problem.
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Green: Republicans Want Courts Out of Climate
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) is a multibillion dollar, privately owned, publicly regulated utility whose main function is to make enormous profits for its shareholders at great cost to ratepayers. I know this to be true; I’m one of the ratepayers. Better than Bernard The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) permits PG&E to charge rates that are 30 percent higher than the national average. read more
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Death and Profits: The Utility Protection Racket
Tags: california, charge-rates, corporations, electric, explosion, great-cost, make-enormous, national, privately-owned, profit, publicly-regulated, ratepayers, utilities
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