Arkansas Public Service Commissioner Lamar B. Davis has resigned effective Nov. 25 to take an unspecified job in the private sector, according to a news release.
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Regulators indicate planning for cleaner power will continue despite SCOTUS ruling
Even as the state has been fighting EPA carbon regulations in court, it’s been quietly laying the groundwork for eventual compliance, just in case. This is nothing but a good thing — but it shows how spurious Arkansas’s claims about the damaging effects of the Clean Power Plan really are.
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Utility seeks hike for little guy
You may remember that Act 725, obviously designed by Entergy, slid through the legislature last spring with virtually no stir or debate.
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Sierra Club allowed to participate in Entergy rate case
Good news from the Arkansas Public Service Commission: It will allow the Sierra Club to intervene in a pending Entergy rate case. Among others, both Entergy and the Arkansas attorney general’s office, now more of an advocate for business interests than ratepayers, had objected.
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Public Service Commission wary of Sierra Club’s bid to intervene in Entergy rate case
Talk Business reports that Arkansas Public Service Commission staff have recommends denial of a request by the Sierra Club of Arkansas to intervene in Entergy Arkansas’s request to increase rates on electricity consumers for the purpose of making improvements to its infrastructure.
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Sierra Club says Attorney General attempting to block its intervention in Entergy rate case
The Sierra Club of Arkansas has said that Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge is attempting to stop the environmental group from participating in a case before the Arkansas Public Service Commission concerning Entergy Arkansas’s proposed rate increase on electric bills in the state.
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Thanks to ledge, you’ll pay more for utilities
Did I mention last week that the current General Assembly had earned the distinction of being the most corporate friendly in history and thereby the most hostile to Arkansas’s sons of toil?
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Renewable energy bill dies in committee
HB 1885, a bill sponsored by Rep. Warwick Sabin to promote renewable energy and distributed generation (producing smaller quantities of power closer to the point of consumption) was killed in the Joint Energy Committee today when Rep. Jim Sorvillo moved for immediate consideration of the bill, which was voted down without hearing from eight citizens present to testify for the bill.
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Ted Thomas to chair Arkansas Public Service Commission
Asa Hutchinson announced today that he would name Ted Thomas as chairman of the Arkansas Public Service Commission.
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Beebe appoints Lamar Davis to Public Service Commission
Gov. Mike Beebe has named his chief deputy, Lamar Davis, to the seat on the Arkansas Public Service Commission vacated by Chair Colette Honorable, who’s joined the Federal Energy RegulatoryCommission. He’ll serve through Jan. 14, 2017.