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GAO: Complete Coal-to-Gas Switch Is a Pipe Dream

There’s no such thing as a natural gas fairy who can turn the nation’s coal-fired power plants into cleaner gas-burners, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) said last week in a report to Congress.

May 6, 2008

PG&E Strikes Back Against Consumer Group’s Report

Calling it a “fairy tale” and “nothing more than smoke and mirrors,” bankruptcy-bound Pacific Gas and Electric Co. late Thursday counter-attacked one of its severest critics, the utility consumer group, TURN, alleging that it “misstated the truth, manipulating facts” in an analysis released earlier in the day that attacked the utility’s proposed Chapter 11 reorganization plan. Even for these two long-time public adversaries, the rhetoric was particularly harsh.

January 28, 2002