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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

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He filed 21 internal complaints in 2012, then bumped them up to the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC), the group that regulates utilities in the state, later that year. In late 2012, several months after Dye took his complaints to OPUC, NW Natural fired him. Systemic Failures of Oversight.

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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

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Ultimately, he filed 21 internal ethical misconduct complaints against colleagues and top executives, including current NW Natural CEO David Anderson, later elevating his concerns to the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC), the body that regulates NW Natural. A Sidelined Solution.

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New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say 

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Some of these cases have been brought under consumer fraud or protection laws that penalise companies for misrepresenting their products to the public. “The increase in CO2 and methane has corresponded with increasing industrialisation, use of fossil fuels, intensification of agriculture and deforestation. The Washington D.C.-based