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After months of threatening a lawsuit, the Checks and Balances Project today sued the Arizona Attorney General’s Office and the Corporation Commission to get immediate access to a commissioner’s text messages.

Arizona Public Service’s CEO said the company won’t give up its rights to spend on Corporation Commission elections despite a request from two commissioners to “voluntarily refrain” from electioneering.

The Arizona Corporation Commission, represented by Attorney General Mark Brnovich, is suing the Environmental Protection Agency over a federal rule designed to reduce carbon emissions.

The Corporation Commission will hear about the combined costs and benefits of residential rooftop solar in the coming months, despite an Arizona Public Service request that the commission only investigate the costs.

The Arizona Corporation Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to dismiss an electric cooperative’s request to alter net metering, instead saying the matter should be handled in its ongoing rate case.

The Arizona Corporation Commission wants to bump up pay for its securities investigators, which the agency says it continues to lose to other departments that pay better.

An Arizona-based data center company entered the heated debate over whether the Arizona Corporation Commission can require utilities to disclose their election spending.

The resolution calls on the commission to abandon its net metering policy and “adopt a new rate structure for residential rooftop solar customers that would fairly apportion electrical grid maintenance costs to all customers and end the current unfair cost shift to non-solar utility customers.”