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The Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) is a three-member public utilities commission, with beginnings in 1878.It is a quasi-judicial tribunal, which regulates services and rates of electric, natural gas, water and telecommunication providers, as well as all pipelines and transmission lines in the U.S. state of Iowa and has existed with its present name since 1986.
The state’s other investor-owned utility, MidAmerican Energy, hasn’t brought a rate case to the Utilities Board since 2013. This leaves regulators no window into why MidAmerican customer bills ...
Traffic pumping, also known as access stimulation, [1] is a controversial practice by which some local exchange telephone carriers in rural areas of the United States inflate the volume of incoming calls to their networks, and profit from the greatly increased intercarrier compensation fees to which they are entitled by the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
The Sierra Club’s Iowa Chapter, about 100 Iowa landowners and nine counties repeated that claim in their suits, and also challenged whether the three-member panel correctly weighed issues around ...
In 2017, then governor Terry Branstad appointed him as a member of the Iowa Utilities Board. He was subsequently asked to recuse himself for the evident conflict of interest. [3] In June 2017, Lozier recused himself, leaving only two committee members to vote on matters. [4] Lozier´s IUB term expired in May 2023; it is unclear, why.
Des Moines Water Works, Iowa's largest water utility, could see a $155 million shortfall, based on preliminary estimates. Rates would have to dramatically increase if it were to cover all of the ...
In January 2010, Sprint filed a complaint with the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) requesting a declaration that it was proper to withhold VoIP access charges. [4] Though Sprint settled the dispute with Windstream and withdrew the complaint, the board continued the proceeding so that it could decide the underlying issue of VoIP classification under ...
Opponents to Summit's planned carbon-capture pipeline appear to have found unlikely allies after more than 30 Republicans legislators condemned the Iowa Utilities Board’s approval of the project ...