Better MS Report

From Better Mississippi Report: Nothing like having the luxury of a taxpayer-funded tour around the district during the last week of a campaign to keep a candidate in the public eye. Just ask incumbent Public Service Commissioner Leonard Bentz. Bentz announced today a series of “ratepayer forums,” where Bentz and his staff will meet with [...]

From The Mississippi Sierra Club FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2010 CONTACT: Louie Miller, (601) 624-3503; Robert Wiygul, (228) 990-1228 The Sierra Club filed a lawsuit today in Chancery Court challenging the decision by two members of the Mississippi Public Service Commission to revoke their previous decision, and allow Mississippi Power Co. to stick [...]

From The Sun Herald: State regulators have loosened some of their earlier restrictions on Mississippi Power Co.’s proposed coal-fired electricity-generating plant in Kemper County, including a decision that would let the company collect construction costs from customers. The Public Service Commission voted 2-1 Wednesday on the new conditions for the plant application. Last month, the [...]

Louie Miller criticized Lynn Posey, Leonard Bentz flip-flop on issue From Better Mississippi Report: JACKSON, Miss. (Wednesday, May 26, 2010) – The director of the Mississippi Sierra Club said today that the state Public Service Commission shifted the risk of a planned coal-burning power plant from Mississippi Power Co. to the utility’s ratepayers. Louie Miller [...]