Arizona utility challenges coal transport rates
The
Surface Transportation Board has
scheduled an oral argument for Sept. 28 in a challenge by Arizona Electric Power Cooperative to the rates BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad charge to carry coal to its generating plant near Cochise, Ariz.
The utility is challenging rates from New Mexico and the northern part of the Powder River Basin, in Wyoming and Montana.
The hearing of oral arguments will be broadcast over the Internet.