29 News Archive
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FirstEnergy to Locate Mobile Maintenance Group in Western Pennsylvania
AKRON, Ohio, May 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE) today announced plans to locate a power plant maintenance team in Western Pennsylvania.The Mobile Maintenance Group will support the safe, reliable and...
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Wall Street traders and oil company executives
Wall Street traders and oil company executives are raking it in. And working people are paying the price.Food and oil prices, inflated by speculators, are hammering the middle class. Rising gas prices are expected to...
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Expansion OK'd for storing spent nuclear fuel at Beaver plant
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a major expansion of spent nuclear fuel storage capacity at FirstEnergy's Beaver Valley Unit 2 nuclear reactor in Shippingport, Beaver County.The NRC action,...
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Day 1
John Boehner, the new speaker, promised the incoming House members of the 112th Congress on Wednesday to “give the government back to the American people.” But away from the camera, the chamber’s new...
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Agreement to merge with Mirant Corporation
Today we entered into a definitive agreement to merge with Mirant Corporation in an all-stock transaction. The combined company, which will be named GenOn Energy, will be one of the largest independent power producers...
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Sen. Arlen Specter
Four years ago, Sen. Arlen Specter proudly signed on as a co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act. Two years ago, he voted to allow a vote on the bill. Yesterday, he announced he will try to block the bill from even...
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The highest paid utilities company CEOs
Dominion Resources CEO tops list of highest-paid chiefs in the utilities sector in 2007NEW YORK (AP) -- Thomas F. Farrell, II, the chief executive of Dominion Resources Inc., topped the list of the most highly paid...
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IBEW Forms Utility Council UCC-2
Local 29 along with eleven other Local Unions and System Council U-3 have become part of the newly created Utility Coordinating Council, UCC-2. International President Ed Hill authorized this new council as a method to...