The Sierra Club says it has won from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversal of a lower court ruling that prevented it from attempting to review documents about the operation of Entergy’s two coal-fired power plants in Arkansas.
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Sierra Club releases “Arkansas Clean Air Solution” plan
The Sierra Club today released the “2016 Arkansas Clean Air Solution,” which it called “a common sense and affordable plan to clean up dangerous air pollution from aging coal plants owned by Entergy Arkansas that outlines a solution to meet federal clean-air safeguards.”
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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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Entergy files proposal to shut White Bluff coal-fired plant by 2028
Entergy Arkansas has filed a response to a federal Environmental Protection Agency plan to reduce haze in Arkansas. Rather than install expensive scrubbers to reduce air pollution at four units of two power plants, it proposes instead to shut down the two-unit White Bluff power plant — the state’s biggest and dirtiest coal-burning power plant — by 2028.
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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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Dumas: The legislature’s handout to utilities and corporations
Ernest Dumas this week uncovers another major giveaway to corporate Arkansas at the expense of average citizens in the form of sweetheart legislation for utility companies that will favor corporations over residential customers.
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Hugh McDonald to retire from Entergy Arkansas in 2016
Hugh McDonald, CEO of Entergy Arkansas, will retire in 2016 and Rick Riley, currently vice president of transmission for Entergy, is expected to succed him, the compnay announced in a release today.
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Entergy asks for 12 percent rate increase for residential customers
Entergy Arkansas has proposed a $167 million electric rate increase that would hit residential customers with an increase of more than 12 percent in monthly bills.