Reducing pollution: Who pays the bill. [Public Utility Commissions allocate costs of pollution abatement]

Journal Article · Tue Jan 15 04:00:00 EST 1991 · Public Utilities Fortnightly; (United States)

OSTI ID:6084295

Williams, A F

Since the nation's lawmakers passed a final version of the Clean Air Act, many utilities will now face large capital expenditures for pollution abatement in the next ten years. That prospect is likely to create problems for the nation's public utility commissioners, who are concerned about the costs to utility customers. A survey of PUC staff and commissioners found that while many are concerned about such issues, few have dealt with pollution abatement problems in the past few years. This survey was conducted during 1989 with all but three states that have commissions. The survey dealt with the ways that commissions have been handling pollution abatement expenditures including: how PUCs handled expenditures in their rate bases; PUC experience with pollution abatement expenditures in rate cases; PUC flexibility in dealing with previous pollution abatement cases; PUC management involvement with utilities; communication between the PUCs and the state air quality offices over problems involving pollution abatement.

• OSTI ID: 6084295
• Journal Information: Public Utilities Fortnightly; (United States), Journal Name: Public Utilities Fortnightly; (United States) Vol. 127:2; ISSN 0033-3808; ISSN PUFNA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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