Water Rate Board Refuses to Answer Questions; Tries to Bar Video Recording at Hearing
This past Thursday, May 14, the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD), the Philadelphia Water Rate Board — the body that decides on water rate increases — and an “advocate” appointed by the rate board, argued before a hearing examiner appointed by the rate board about how much more water rates will go up. In the last […]
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