Don’t make customers pay for utility ‘advocacy’

ORLANDO SENTINEL EDITORIAL

Florida Power & Light calls it advocacy. Critics call it lobbying.

We call sticking utility customers with the bill for it out of line.

FPL, Florida’s largest utility, has asked state regulators for permission to charge its customers for $228,500 the company would spend fighting a proposed federal clean-water rule. The rule at issue would clarify which waterways are subject to federal protection. MORE…

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