The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA), also known as the Wheeler-Rayburn Act, was a US federal law giving the Securities and Exchange...
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gasoline. The law also repealed the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, effective February 2006. The Act increases the amount of biofuel (usually...
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largest bank holding companies in the finance sector, as of December 2013[update], based on total assets. The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 caused...
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The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 95–617, 92 Stat. 3117, enacted November 9, 1978) is a United...
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reorganize due to the passage of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. Following the passage of the Act, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...
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Transcontinental Company. It owned public utilities and public transport companies and was broken up in 1946, largely to comply with the Public Utility Holding Company...
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the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA) to help small utility companies stay competitive with larger utilities and amended the Public Utility...
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three companies were deemed to be an integrated system with the passage of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. In 1945, Texas Utilities was...
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Southern Company is an American gas and electric utility holding company based in the Southern United States. It is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia...
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Eversource Energy (redirect from Northeast Utilities Systems)
parent company, creating the first new multi-state public utility holding company since the enactment of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935...
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Regulation S-X (section Bank holding companies)
Securities Act of 1933, Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, Investment Company Act of 1940, Investment Advisers Act of...
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General Motors streetcar conspiracy (section Urban Mass Transportation Act and 1974 Antitrust hearings)
became an expensive burden. The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 prohibited regulated electric utilities from operating unregulated businesses...
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holding that a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) order under the Public Utility Holding Company Act (PUHCA) directing a public utility holding...
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Entergy (redirect from Gulf States Utilities Company)
the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, losing a Supreme Court case in 1938, and was ordered dissolved under the provisions of that act in 1949...
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FirstEnergy (redirect from General Public Utilities)
cut costs and fight to repeal the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, which made it difficult for utilities to operate across state lines. Allegheny...
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case in which the court upheld the constitutionality of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. On March 28, 1938, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in...
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Berkshire Hathaway (redirect from Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (Holding Co.))
interest was limited to 10% of the company's shares, but this restriction ended when the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 was repealed in 2005. A...
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: 27 Overseen by the California Public Utilities Commission, PG&E is the leading subsidiary of the holding company PG&E Corporation, which has a market...
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would proliferate, but remain largely unregulated until the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. The Bureau also conducted studies of tobacco, steel...
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Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA) required that a company like Cities Service divest itself of either its electric utility holdings or...
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investment matters. Impetus for passage of the act began with the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, which authorized the Securities and Exchange...
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directly to the passing of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, Securities Act of 1933, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Hopson was born...
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This is a list of public utilities. Barbados - National Petroleum Corporation, Barbados National Oil Company Ltd. Brazil - Comgás Canada - List of...
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Social Security Act, the National Labor Relations Act, the Banking Act of 1935, the Wealth Tax Act, the Public Utility Holding Company Act, the Rural Electrification...
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Tennessee Valley Authority (redirect from Tennessee Valley Authority Act)
effort to change this, Congress and Roosevelt enacted the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA). During his 1932 presidential campaign, Franklin...
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PSNH (redirect from Public Service Company of New Hampshire)
electric companies in New Hampshire. In 1935 the Public Utility Holding Company Act was passed, setting the stage for PSNH to become a regulated utility. In...
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utilities formed joint operations to share peak load coverage and backup power. In 1934, with the passage of the Public Utility Holding Company Act,...
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New Deal (redirect from Lanham Act of 1940)
New Deal: The USA 1890–1954 p. 109 Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 Federal Power Act of 1935 Natural Gas Act of 1938 Government and Politics of...
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Pepco (redirect from Potomac Electric Power Company)
American Company, a holding company that owned many public utilities, gained control of Washington Railway and Electric. The Public Utility Holding Company Act...
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Reworld (redirect from Covanta Holding Corporation)
the Utilities Power and Light, Ogden was obligated to divest its utility interests so that it would comply with the Public Utility Holding Company Act of...
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