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Environmental Compliance Hearing

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Published November 3, 2011 at 4:20 PM EDT

KU and LG&E are seeking state authorization to spend a total of about $2.5 billion to comply with new federal environmental requirements affecting utilities that burn coal to generate electricity. The utilities estimate that total electric bills for LG&E customers would increase by about 19.2 percent by 2016, while KU customers would see total bills increase by about 12.2 percent over that same time.
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