Gray taps former consumer advocate for Public Service Commission

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Mayor Vincent C. Gray has nominated a former utility consumer advocate to sit on the influential Public Service Commission, setting up a potential confrontation with powerful Pepco, which opposes the choice.

For 18 years, attorney Elizabeth Noel was the People's Counsel, a $155,653 city position in which she represented consumers' interests against local utilities. In recent years, Noel opposed Pepco's rate-hike proposals and questioned the utility's objections to burying power lines when the practice could result in safer, more reliable service.

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Lori Montgomery 18 Sep, 2011

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