September 3, 2025 archive

Residents fight a $22 a month rate hike pushed by El Paso Electric

    Some of the recent utility rate hikes made by Oklahoma utilities pale in comparison to the one proposed by El Paso Electric in southwest Texas. It wants a $93 million rate hike that would skyrocket residential rates by an average of $22.39 a month, meaning additional costs of hundreds of dollars a year. …

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Energy briefs

** In a huge win for public health and the environment, a U.S. District Judge has ordered Chemours Chemical Company to immediately suspend the discharge of dangerous “forever chemicals” into the Ohio River from its facility near Parkersburg, West Virginia. ** California is leading the resistance against President Donald Trump’s deregulation agenda with new rules that will force companies …

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