Energy and Utilities Law

This is FindLaw’s collection of Energy and Public Utilities Law articles, part of the Corporate Counsel Center Law Library. A public utility is a business or service, which may be publicly or privately owned, engaged in supplying the public generally with some commodity or service, such as electricity, gas, water, transportation, or telephone or telegraph service. The individual states’ various public utilities commissions oversee electric companies, while electric utility boards are delegated power by the state legislature. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.

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Carbon Monoxide Dangers

Odorless, colorless, and tasteless--carbon monoxide (CO) can float through your home without your sensing it. This deadly gas replaces oxygen in your blood, damaging body tissue and killing cells. Carbon monoxide poisoning results in confusion ...
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International Construction Marketing

MARKETING CASE STUDIES: AN AMERICAN LAWYER'S PERSPECTIVE Despite recent setbacks in Asia, it appears there is still plenty of design and construction work on the international scene. In the US, the construction industry "is registering the highest ...
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Marketing a Litigation Practice

If you're a litigator or you have litigators in your law firm, you undoubtedly have heard (or voiced) the mantra: "You can't market litigation." Admittedly, the nature of the practice can make it difficult. But once you understand some basic ...
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Marketing Your Business For Success

Marketing plays a vital role in successful business ventures. How well the plan you develop markets your business, along with the management and financial management plans, will ultimately determine your degree of success or failure. The key ...
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Mental Stress Related to Myocardial Ischemia

Mental stress during daily life, including reported feelings of tension, frustration, and sadness, can more than double the risk of myocardial ischemia in the subsequent hour. The unadjusted relative risk of occurrence of myocardial ischemia in the ...
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MOUs and Private Utility Companies: A New Approach for Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties

The WSSC now offers developers an alternative to WSSC installation of water and sewer systems pursuant to which developers assume responsibility for installation of such systems under an agreement known as a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU ...
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Pennsylvania Power Shutoffs

When a Pennsylvania landlord commenced eviction proceedings against his tenants, they called the local electric company and arranged for disconnection of the electric service before leaving the premises. Because the tenants were the "ratepayers ...
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Power Projects & Power Purchase Contracts: Uncertainty Rules

The central premise of economic deregulation is that retail and corporate consumers are better served through open marketplaces than through regulated monopolies or oligopolies. The objective is to tear down the legal walls that prevent ...
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President Bush Signs Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2002 Into Law

The Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2002 was signed into law by President Bush on December 17, 2002. Congress had crafted the legislation as an amendment to the 1994 Pipeline Safety Law, largely in response to pipeline ruptures in Carlsbad, New ...
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