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New tax on your utility bill

Little noticed in legislative debates over taxes and budgets, House File 956 (HF 956), an Omnibus Energy bill, is quietly working its way through committee hearings, on its way to the floor of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2013-04-16/new-tax-your-utilit
Guest Columns
Cold weather rule ends April 16

...phone and avoid service disruption, or to learn more about energy assistance, call 612-372-4680 or 800-729-6164. For information about ways to reduce energy use and lower energy bills, visit CenterPoint-Energy.com/saveenergy.

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2013-04-15/cold-weather-rule-ends-april-16
News
Business Notes Jan. 13

...We ask that customers join us this winter and donate to the program, which helps those who may be struggling to pay energy bills."For more information on the HeatShare Program, go to www.CenterPointEnergy.com/Heatshare.F & M Bank donates...

http://brainerddispatch.com/business/2013-01-11/business-notes-jan-13
Business
Benefits could expire for 12,200 Minnesota unemployed

...Minnesotans could find themselves turning to charity and local government for help with basic needs such as food, shelter and energy bills. Federal funding for jobless aid nearly tripled during the recession, rising from $33 billion in 2007 to $94 billion...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-12-25/benefits-could-expire-12200-minnesot
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Business Notes July 8

...Energy's bronze-winning video, which is viewable on You Tube,explains how the company can help customers save money on energy bills and make their home more efficient. The company's Conservation Improvement Program video was produced by Studio 120...

http://brainerddispatch.com/business/2012-07-06/business-notes-july-8
Business
Polar explorer Steger to speak on clean energy, climate

...For every dollar Minnesota utilities invest in energy savings, their customers save over five dollars on their energy bills. Can we be even more energy efficient? ? Minnesota has cut mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants by 90 percent...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-11-02/polar-explorer-steger-speak-clean-en
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Efficiency doesn't mean less use

In 2007, President Bush signed into law a widely supported energy bill mandating, in part, that light bulbs become more efficient, starting in 2012. The effect is to eliminate the old fashioned...

http://brainerddispatch.com/node/10922
Guest Columns
If wishes were horses...

If wishes were horses, legislators could pass renewable energy bills which ride rough shod over the Laws of Nature and Physics, but they can't. If wishes were horses, wind and solar would have...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2012-04-23/if-wishes-were-horses
Open Forum
Stumbling in New Hampshire

...Republicans and Democrats said Wednesday, that was long on photo ops and endorsements and short on substance and energy. Bill Mayer, a political scientist at Northeastern University who has written extensively about the presidential nominating...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/020400/opi_0204000007.shtml
Opinion
New energy crisis?

...edging toward a new energy crisis. For the first time in a generation, Americans are worrying seriously about their energy bills and energy supplies. Not since the Arab oil embargoes in the 1970s have analysts, businesses and consumers found so...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/082200/nne_0822000001.shtml
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