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is having broad protective and beneficial effects is shown by the action of the state legislature in passing a bill at its last session requiring such public hearings by the State Corporation Commission.
Virginia residents might ask themselves why so many years passed without this reasonable requirement, why the utilities and the legislature were so cozy with each other in giving the powerful utilities virtually every law they wanted.
In any case, this wrong has been rectified and the hearing will be held, although much, much more remains to be done in Richmond to give citizens the environmental protection they are entitled to have under the law, including the right to peaceful enjoyment of their own scenic property. But further reform of die pro-utility, straightjacket laws depends primarily on an increasing awareness of the issue by all Virginians.
The courts must be guided by these laws and by precedents, but even the Supreme Court as we know varies at times in its in
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