The Arkansas Public Service Commisson began hearings yesterday on the proposal by SWEPCO and the Arkansas Electric Cooperatives to be allowed to charge ratepayers more than $400 million to retrofit their Flint Creek coal-burning generating plant so it can meet stricter air quality standards.
Great column again this week by Ernie Dumas, this time on the Republican effort to gut stricter regulation of deadly mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants.
Lt. Gov. Bill Halter invented the Arkansas lottery. The new lieutenant governor, Mark Darr, didn't invent electricity, but he loves to see it generated by the coal-burning power plant in Hempstead County.