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Headlines - 2008

• Rendell: State Could Limit Electric Rates (July 3, 2008)
• Cumberland County, PA, GOs Raised to AAA by S&P (July 3, 2008)
• Penn National Gaming Ends Merger Agreement (July 3, 2008)
• Governor Rendell Welcomes Confirmation of Pennsylvania Public Utility Commissioners (June 30, 2008)
• FCC Announces Public En Banc Hearing in Pittsburgh on Broadband and the Digital Future (June 30, 2008)
• SEC Votes to Remove NRSRO from 38 Rules (June 26, 2008)
• T-Mobile Goes Nationwide with Landline Service (June 25, 2008)
• PUC Extends Fuel Surcharge for the Passenger Motor Carrier Industry (June 24, 2008)
• PUC Releases Audit Report on the Telecommunications Relay Service Program (June 24, 2008)
• Utilities Cut Off More Customers Who Are Behind on Their Bills (June 24, 2008)
• Former Customers Off Limits to Verizon (June 24, 2008)
• Moody’s Drops FGIC, XL Capital to Junk (June 23, 2008)
• Heating, Electricity Rates Rising as Prices for Natural Gas Surge (June 23, 2008)
• Rating Bill May Ease Strictures (June 19, 2008)
• FERC Examines Causes of, Responses to Rising Electricity Costs (June 19, 2008)
• PUC Chairman Holland Plans to Address Energy Prices and Aging Infrastructure on Joint Federal-State Smart Grid Collaborative (June 17, 2008)
• Building the 21st Century Central Office (June 16, 2008)
• Electric Utilities and Electric Grid Managers Highlight Reliability for Summer Months (June 12, 2008)
• SEC Proposes Comprehensive Reforms to Bring Increased Transparency to Credit Rating Process (June 11, 2008)
• FCC Delays Consideration of Free Internet Plan (June 6, 2008)
• Verizon in Talks to Buy Alltel (June 5, 2008)
• Electric Utilities and Electric Grid Managers to Highlight Electric Reliability (June 5, 2008)
• Experts Eye Prepaid Electricity Contracts (June 4, 2008)
• Mounting Costs Slow the Push for Clean Coal (May 30, 2008)
• PUC Calls PJM’s Reliability Pricing Model (RPM) Base Residual Auctions ‘Unjust and Unreasonable’ (June 2, 2008)
• Rating Reform Benefits Bond Market (June 1, 2008)
• PUC Releases Annual Report on Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act (May 29, 2008)
• FCC Issues Clarification on Contacts Between Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) Providers and TRS Consumers (May 28, 2008)
• FASB’s New Rules for Bond Insurers (May 28, 2008)
• PUC Finalizes Rulemaking Process to Revise Net Metering and Interconnection Regulations to Reflect Amendments to Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards (May 22, 2008)
• PUC Approves Final Rulemaking Adding Inspection, Maintenance, Repair, and Replacement Standards for Electric Distribution Companies to Chapter 57 (May 22, 2008)
• PUC Finalizes Rulemaking to Permit Electronic Filing (May 22, 2008)
• PUC Approves Reorganization of Equitable Resources Inc. (May 22, 2008)
• PUC Certifies Penn Power Competitive Bidding Process for Residential Rates as Transparent, Non-Discriminatory and Reflecting Market-Based Prices (May 21, 2008)
• Moody’s Drops CIFG to Junk (May 21, 2008)
• Rendell Announces Turnpike Bid Winners (May 20, 2008)
• Supreme Court Upholds Tax Exemptions for Municipal Bonds (May 20, 2008)
• Rural Operators Petition FCC to End Handset Exclusives (May 20, 2008)
• SEC Broadens Opportunities for Small Business Financing (May 15, 2008)
• Municipal Credit Risk and the Value of Bond Insurance (May 12, 2008)
• Bush Signs Student Loan Market Stabilization Plan (May 7, 2008)
• UBS to Close Down Its Municipal Bond Dept. (May 7, 2008)
• Interim Cap Clears Path for Comprehensive Reform (May 2, 2008)
• PUC Approves Final Rulemaking for the Public Utility Confidential Security Information Disclosure Act (May 1, 2008)
• PUC Approves Plan to Allow Citizens’ Electric Co. and Wellsboro Electric Co. to Begin Meeting Alternative Energy Requirements (May 1, 2008)
• PUC Approves $150,000 Settlement with National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp. (May 1, 2008)
• PUC Tentatively Approves Consumer Education Plans for Various Electric Companies (May 1, 2008)
• FCC Takes Action to Cap High Cost Support Under the Universal Service Fund (May 1, 2008)
• Hearings to Address TMI License (April 22, 2008)
• Vermont Telephone Company Seeks Declaratory Ruling Concerning VoIP Interconnection Rights (April 18, 2008)
• Supreme Court Steps Into Utilities Case (April 14, 2008)
• FCC Conditionally Designates Tracfone as an ETC for Lifeline Service in Several States (April 11, 2008)
• PUC Extends Fuel Surcharge for Tristate Household Goods Carriers (April 9, 2008)
• PUC Certifies Penn Power Competitive Bidding Process as Transparent, Non Discriminatory and Reflecting Market-Based Prices (April 4, 2008)
• PUC Unveils Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Website (April 1, 2008)
• Sixteen State Regulators Join NARUC-FERC Smart Grid Collaborative (March 31, 2008)
• PUC Releases Winter/Spring Edition of the ‘Keystone Connection’ Report (March 26, 2008)
• FERC Adds Transparency, Clarity to Gas Company Financial Reporting Requirements (March 20, 2008)
• FCC Expands, Improves Broadband Data Collection (March 19, 2008)
• PUC Permits Public Input Hearing on PPL’s Rate Stabilization Plan (March 18, 2008)
• PUC Announces Supply Procurement Plan for Penn Power Residential Customers’ Default Service (March 13, 2008)
• Lawmakers Poised for Key Rulings on Power Prices (February 29, 2008)
• PUC Boosts Charges to Pittsburgh Transportation Group (February 29, 2008)
• Governor Rendell Says Pennsylvania’s Renewable Energy Leadership Will Take Center Stage at International Conference (February 29, 2008)
• PUC Approves Settlement for Pike County Power & Light to Begin Improvements (February 28, 2008)
• PUC Delays Vote on Chloramine Appeal (February 28, 2008)
• Fed Ready to Cut Interest Rates Again (February 27, 2008)
• Pennsylvania’s New Open-Records Law Praised (February 15, 2008)
• Federal, State Regulators Convene Collaborative Dialogue on ‘Smart Grid’ (February 14, 2008)
• Electricity Players Cooperate, but Brace for a Fight (February 13, 2008)
• SEC Proposes Plain English Narrative Disclosure By Investment Advisers to Investors (February 13, 2008)
• Tax Reform: Lots of Talk, No Action: No Votes in Sight for 3 Major Proposals (February 11, 2008)
• Congress Wants Do Not Call List Permanent (February 6, 2008)
• Federal Court Sought for Incinerator Lawsuit (February 3, 2008)
• FCC Provides Guidance on Filing of Annual Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) Certifications (January 29, 2008)
• FCC Issues NPRM Seeking Comment on Rules Governing Amount of High-Cost Universal Service Support Provided to Competitive ETCs (January 29, 2008)
• FCC Issues NPRM Seeking Comment on Merits of Using Reverse Auctions to Determine Amount of High-Cost Universal Service Support Provided to ETCs Serving Rural, Insular, and High-Cost Areas (January 29, 2008)
• FCC Issues NPRM Seeking Comment on Recommendation of Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service Regarding Comprehensive Reform of High-Cost Universal Service Support (January 29, 2008)
• PUC Approves 911 Renewal Plan for Armstrong County (January 24, 2008)
• FERC Conditionally Approves Duquesne’s Exit from PJM Regional Group (January 17, 2008)
• PA State Board of Education Votes to Establish Statewide Graduation Requirements (January 17, 2008)
• NECA’s Proposed 2008 Modification of Average Schedule Formulas (January 15, 2008)
• Dominion, Equitable Terminate Agreement for Sale of Peoples, Hope Gas Utilities (January 15, 2008)
• PUC Approves Transfer of Stock for Trigen-Philadelphia Energy Corp. (January 10, 2008)
• Comment Sought on Tracfone Wireless, Inc.’s Petitions for Designation as an ETC in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (January 9, 2008)
• PA High Court Reverses Decision Blocking Verizon-MCI Merger (January 2, 2008)