From LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL:
Electric, natural gas and waste water utilities may soon be able to raise prices without the public hearings and other costly, time-consuming steps that have long been part of the rate-making process in Pennsylvania.
Legislation that would allow the change, which proponents say is necessary to upgrade aging infrastructure, has already made it through the state House and is now under consideration by the Senate. Final passage could come next month, when Harrisburg bustles with end-of-the-year activity.
Already, the matter has pitted the state’s official consumer advocate against the agency that oversees utilities…
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EDITOR: Here we go again. Further enrich the wealthy through deregulation. Exploit the consumer.
