By Claudia Silva, New Mexico In Depth When Ida Garcia looks out the kitchen window during cool mornings, plumes billowing from a power plant less than a mile away in Texas obscure her view of the ...
El Paso Electric’s goal of building a natural gas power plant on the city’s Northeast side is facing several hurdles that could delay or even derail the project. The proposed facility, called Newman 6, would ...
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By Sam Silerio The only electric utility in our city, El Paso Electric (EPE), is now owned by a multibillion-dollar investment fund managed by JPMorgan Chase. By definition, EPE is a monopoly. It also is ...