| September 4, 2003 | - A federal appeals court blocked the FCC's new rules expanding the freedom of media monopolies.
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New York Times
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| September 3, 2003 | - The Environmental Protection Agency relaxed restrictions on selling land contaminated with PCBs,
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 2, 2003 | - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced a settlement with energy companies that benefited from market manipulation in the California
energy crisis two years ago.
The companies agreed to pay about $1 million in fines, or about 3 cents for every Californian, though the energy scam cost the state $8.9 billion, or $250 per citizen.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 15, 2003 | - The United States and parts of Canada suffered a massive blackout that left millions of people in 8 states without electricity; New York City, Detroit, Cleveland, and Toronto were all affected.
Officials soon determined that the outage, the largest in American history, was caused by a failed line in Ohio. "We are a major superpower with a Third World electrical grid," said Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 16, 2001 | - Governor Gray Davis of California threatened to take over power plants if necessary to get the state's electric supply under control; he said that energy
deregulation was “a colossal and dangerous failure.”
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| August 8, 2000 | -
California was in the midst of a power shortage; residents faced the prospect of rolling black outs and many began, hesitantly, to question the wisdom of energy
deregulation.
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