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September 3, 2008

Mississippi Wants Answers on Excessive Energy Costs

Consumer Affairs, 9/2/8 Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has escalated his feud with one of the state’s largest energy providers. As energy prices rose over the course of the summer, Hood charged Entergy Mississippi concealed information about its business practices and subjected consumers to unfairly excessive costs. “In the wake of sharp increases in Entergy’s…
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September 3, 2008

EPA vetoes controversial pumps

The Clarion-Ledger, 9/3/8 The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday all but killed a federal plan nearly seven decades in the making to build the world’s largest water pumps in the Mississippi Delta. Ben Grumbles, EPA assistant administrator for water, followed through on the agency’s threat to veto the $220 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers…