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Utility fees sought for environmental research center
With this year's legislative session in its final days, lawmakers
Monday unveiled a bill mandating new fees from electricity ratepayers
to fund a University of California-run global warming research center.
The
surcharge, amounting to $37 million a year for up to a decade, would be
paid by customers of regulated utilities such as Southern California
Edison Co. and publicly owned ones, including the Los Angeles
Department of Water and Power. The fees would partially fund an
$87-million-a-year Climate Change Research and Workforce Development
Institute, whose location has yet to be decided.
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