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What happens when lawmakers let industry craft utilities in the state and then rush it through the legislature without reading it.

We saw what happens in South Carolina, where two utilities in the state have walked away from a nuclear plant they were building there,

leaving rate payers to foot the bill and putting thousands of people out of work.

And it's the result of a piece of legislation that few knew much about past a decade ago.

And in keeping with this theme of people getting used, we're going to talk about a couple

newly published features about Louisiana, one on the recovery after last year's

record-breaking floods, and one on the state after last year's record-breaking floods and one on the state's

disastrous environmental record. But first we turn to what else Tesla? The first

model 3s were given to customers recently. The first solar roofs are up on a few houses and

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