I took the service lift to the eighth floor, and made my way to the utility boards.

However, many haulers said that they, too, would have to stop pickups unless the utility board put a moratorium on the increase.

That's where the shopping credit comes in, and why the utility board's rulings between now and May will be so crucial to the plan's success.

But the state's utility board must approve the increase.

Five days of hearings were held before the state's public utility board.

In 1990, he ran for a seat on the state Corporation Commission, a utility regulatory board, and won.

Critics of the company say United Water always gets its way with the utility board.

Today, the utility board officially ordered the 1,200 others to join.

The utility board is also considering a plan to carve up the 201 and 908 regions into four area codes.

The utility board raised the dumping fee nearly 22 percent, to $80 a ton.