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Bethlehem Township officials reject arena deal
Bethlehem Township commissioners Monday night rejected Allentown's latest offer to settle their lawsuit against the city's arena project, dealing a crushing blow to the city's hopes of having the $220 million hockey complex open next year… The...Tags: Allentown, Bethlehem Township (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), PPL Corporation
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PPL default electricity rates to go up
Rates for PPL Electric Utilities' default customers will inch up next month under a filing the company submitted Friday to state regulators. The new price for residential customers will be 7.993 cents a kilowatt-hour, up from the current 6.935. It...Tags: Small Businesses, Allentown, PPL Corporation
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Electric rates going up in 2015
Tribune reporterYour electric rates are going up but not until 2015. That year, electric bills are set to be about $130 a year more than now, according to the results of annual auction that decides which electricity providers will be paid for committing to run their...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Petroleum Industry, Auction Service, Natural Resources, Energy Saving
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Power from solar project on local farmland to go to houses in San Diego
Power from a solar project near Mount Signal will be sent over the hill to San Diego. 8minutenergy Renewables signed a 20-year power purchase agreement last week to sell 200 megawatts of solar energy from its Mount Signal Solar project west of Calexico...Tags: Electronics, Alternative Energy, Energy Saving, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy
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Coal plant closures could send electricity costs soaring
Residential electricity prices are expected to spike by more than 10 percent beginning in 2015, with consumers paying between $150 and $330 a year more than this year, as coal plants, the least expensive producers of electricity, continue to close....
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Students to use solar panels in the classroom
TribLocal - Downers Grove » NewsStudents at El Sierra School will use modern technology to examine phenomena billions of years old. Starting next school year, students will perform science and …... -
Storm Reforms Breeze Through Senate
The Hartford CourantSix months after a freak, late-October snowstorm caused the worst power outage in Connecticut history, the Senate on Saturday unanimously approved a bill that aims to make sure the state is better prepared in the future. The sweeping reforms would...Tags: Democratic Party, Finance, Standards, Len Suzio, Farmington (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Tenaska willing to drop coal to strike deal, source says
Tribune staff reporterTenaska Inc., the Nebraska-based company seeking to gasify coal to generate electricity in Downstate Taylorville is ready to take coal off the table. Instead, it may power its plant from old fashioned natural gas in an attempt to win votes for its...Tags: Auction Service, Business, Metal and Mineral, Natural Resources, Environmental Politics
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Storm Reforms Pass, Minimum Wage Hike Fails
The Hartford CourantAs the 2012 legislative session ticked toward its terminus late Wednesday, the House of Representatives gave final approval to a bill that aims to reduce the likelihood of prolonged storm-related power outages — and soften the blow of blackouts that...Tags: Justice System, John McKinney, Lawyers, Republican Party, Hurricane Irene (2011)
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Saving electric in preparation for a hot summer
Q: I want to reduce my electric bills especially with the upcoming summer's air-conditioning costs. I thought about installing a skylight or tubular skylight so I need fewer lights. Which would be best? — George M. A: If this mild winter was any...
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This Legislature: The Good, The Bad And The So-So
There were surprising issues tackled in the General Assembly this year. Most profound of all, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy forced a reluctant legislature to face the great disgrace of failing schools. The school reform plan that emerged from the ugly fight...Tags: Regional Authority, Dannel P. Malloy , Government, Voting, Politics
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Peoples Gas hits funding bump in $2.5 billion plan to replace pipes
Peoples Gas is digging up Chicago streets and replacing rusty, leak-prone pipes with plastic pipes that can deliver natural gas faster, safer and more efficiently. "There's pipe that went in the ground when Lincoln was president," said Willard Evans Jr.,...
Tags: Judges, Justice System, Lisa Madigan, Natural Resources, Environmental Issues
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May 18, 2012
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May 10, 2012
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May 13, 2012
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May 11, 2012
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May 14, 2012
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