Feb. 28 — Those declines were mostly tied to the $23 million, fourth-quarter loss in the company’s Palo Verde nuclear plant investment fund, which will be used to pay for the eventual closure, or so-called decommissioning, of the Arizona nuclear plant in the distant future.
— El Paso Times
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