House committee questions TVA power rates
A letter from the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee alleges Tennessee Valley Authority actions are “to the disadvantage of TVA’s ratepayers and the environment.” (The Daily Memphian file)
A nine-page letter from Capitol Hill questions a central tenet of TVA’s pitch for Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division to remain the federal agency’s largest customer for electric power.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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