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Peoples Gas seeks surcharge to pay for $2.5 billion pipe replacement program
Peoples Gas has dropped its request for automatic rate hikes on home heating bills to pay to replace aging pipes below city streets. Chicago's Peoples Gas is floating legislation in Springfield that would add a surcharge onto utility bills to pay for a...Tags: Nicor Incorporated, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (tv program), Consumers, Ameren Corporation
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Peoples Gas wants surcharge
Peoples Gas has dropped its request for automatic rate hikes on home heating bills to pay to replace aging pipes below city streets. The natural gas utility is now floating new legislation in Springfield that would add a surcharge onto its utility bills...
Tags: Nicor Incorporated, Consumers, Energy Resources, Ameren Corporation
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'Green' gas plans offer climate-friendly home heating
Guest blogger“Would you like to buy a carbon offset with your purchase today?” That’s a question you hear more often when you rent a car or buy groceries at MOM’S Organic Markets. Now, you also have that option when you buy natural gas to...Tags: Gold Standard Incorporated, Petroleum Industry, Energy Saving, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Natural Gas
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Washington fire deaths down slightly in recent years
Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash.Fewer fire-related deaths were reported in 2012 than in the two previous years, according to a report released Wednesday by the Office of the State Fire Marshal. Fire agencies reported 63 fire deaths last year, down from 71 in 2011 and 67 in 2010....Tags: Mount Vernon
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Webb: Take a rail tour through Canyon County
The Idaho StatesmanEriks Garsvo, a College of Western Idaho history student and one of the most knowledgeable tour guides around, hosts a guided auto tour of the BN&O (Boise Nampa & Owyhee Rail Road) route. The fundraiser tour will begin at the Nampa Train Depot and end...Tags: Human Interest, U.S. Military, Car Guides and Reviews
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Longtime Hagerstown firm loses 'heartbreaking' struggle to survive
arnoldp@herald-mail.comBelieving in his employees to the very end, Lynn Bowers used to encourage them, saying their small Hagerstown company could compete like “a Davy in an industry of Goliaths.” But last year, after struggling through the worst economy many of...Tags: Pies and Tarts, Sales, Consumers, New Products, Family
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Risky alternative investments not for the faint of heart
With interest rates near record lows, older savers are finding it harder to stomach bank CDs or Treasury bonds. But Belvidere, Ill., retiree Miles Fryar would be having fewer sleepless nights if he had parked his cash in those traditional investment...
Tags: Arbitration, Realty, Bankruptcy, Investments, Real Estate
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The Record (Hackensack, N.J.), Your Money's Worth column
The Record, Hackensack, N.J.Be prepared to dig a bit deeper into your pockets in the weeks and months ahead because food prices for a family of four are expected to increase more than $4 a week this year, according to an analysis by an Upper Saddle River-based trade association....Tags: Food Industry, Relief and Aid Organizations, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public Service Electric & Gas Company
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Friedens man arrested for threatening to kill wife, others
Matthew Scott Martin, 29, Listie Road, Friedens, was arrested and arraigned early Wednesday morning before Somerset District Judge Ken Johnson for allegedly driving drunk and threatening to kill his wife and others. Police said that shortly after...
Tags: Trials, Court Preliminary, Friedens, Ken Johnson
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Kevin Hunt: West Hartford Company Pumps Too Much Oil: Does Customer Pay?
The Hartford CourantWhen the home heating-oil pump doesn't stop pumping, someone has to pay. But who? Andrew Campbell of Cromwell asked Northeast Energy in early March to pump 100 gallons, and no more, that would be paid for with a Joe-4-Oil voucher, a Citizens Energy...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Consumers, Prices, Hartford County
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State Commerce Committee Kills Heating Oil Tax Bill
The Hartford CourantA bill that would have created a tax on heating oil and propane died on Thursday when commerce committee chairs decided against sending it for a vote. The proposed state tax — initially 1.5 cents per gallon and escalating to 3.5 cents per gallon in...Tags: Kerosene, Petroleum Industry, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Energy Saving, Energy Resources
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New England's Reliance On Natural Gas Straining Reliable Power Operations
New England has become dependent on natural gas for more than half of its electric generation over the past decade, creating severe challenges to reliable power system operations, the region's power grid operator said Tuesday. The primary problem is...Tags: Entergy Corporation, Dominion Resources Incorporated, U.S. House of Representatives, Petroleum Industry, National Grid Plc
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