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Utilities in Maine cannot use your dollars to pay for lobbyists

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As more fully described by David Pomerantz in his guest essay in The New York Times, three states in the nation have passed laws forbidding utilities to use ratepayers’ money to cover lobbying costs. The bad news, 47 have not.

Mr. Pomerantz is the executive director of the Energy and Policy Institute, a utility watchdog organization and you can read his essay at https://nyti.ms/3PKOppa

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