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Residents in President Biden’s home state of Delaware – which he represented in the Senate for more than three decades – saw a $15 decrease in their utility bills in 2018, replacing the anticipated $65 increase.
The reason was the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, according to the Delaware Public Service Commission, in announcing the rate cut from Delmarva. The tax reform package that President Trump signed in late 2017, among other things, slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%.
Delaware is one of 38 states to pass along the corporate tax rate cut to customers, according to data compiled by Americans for Tax Reform. That includes the current president’s birth state, where the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission announced in 2018 a monthly credit to customer bills for 17 electric, natural gas, and water and wastewater utilities, totaling more than $320 million.
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PETERSBURG – Conversations about Petersburg’s water infrastructure are usually sprinkled with comments about pipes dating back to the civil war, and a fear that the city could become “the next Flint, Michigan.”
Questions about this aging infrastructure are coming back to the forefront now that Petersburg is responsible for upgrading the water and sewer infrastructure that feeds into the city’s incoming pharma manufacturing cluster.
Upgrades to the utilities in this region could ultimately benefit a fair number of neighborhoods and businesses.
A study from 2006 said that the Poor Creek Sewer Service Area was at or near capacity across the entire system. That 7.1 square mile portion of piping in the city’s southeastern corner accounts for about one-third of Petersburg’s wastewater utility.
HUNTINGTON A local union is suing West Virginia American Water Company on behalf of several members alleging that union members could not be discharged from the water company unless just cause existed.
Earl Dishman, Adam Wellman and Arlie Crane were members of the Utility Workers United Association Local 537, which had exclusive collective bargaining representatives for the clerical, production and maintenance employees at WVAWC s Huntington unit in Cabell and adjoining counties, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.
Dishman was discharged from WVAWC on July 30, while Wellman and Crane were disciplined. Local 537 says there was no just cause for Dishman s termination or Wellman and Crane s discipline.