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...charges computer users a $30 shipping-and-handling fee to take even an ancient PC off their hands. Hewlett-Packard plans to launch its consumer-PC take-back program in March. Regional efforts--such as Sony's "recycling days" begun in Minnesota last fall--have sprung up from Oregon to New York...
...Because next week, Bush's stay of execution - the order to western states to funnel their surplus electricity to California lightbulbs - runs out, and you can bet the folks in Oregon, Washington and Idaho won't be doing it voluntarily. The trick for Davis, in his haste to cut stopgap deals, will be to avoid paying prices that are an expensive embarrassment five years down the road...
...short answer is, yes, you are probably in line for deregulation. Nearly half the states, from New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia to Texas, Arizona and Oregon, are in various stages of deregulating their part of the nation's vast, $218 billion electricity system...
That doesn't mean they are going to duplicate California's calamity. But the promised benefits of deregulation have for the most part remained just that. New York City is facing an electricity shortage this summer. In the Northwest, Oregon and Washington, which typically import power from California in the winter, have recently been sending juice south and find themselves exposed to a cruel market driven up by their neighbor's woes. "Retail utilities may lack the financial resources to purchase needed supplies or build the generation we all agree is necessary," Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber wrote in a letter...
Bollinger received his bachelor's degree from the University of Oregon in 1968 and went on to attend Columbia Law School, where he received his J.D. in 1971 and served as an editor at the Columbia Law Review...