Cole v. Washington Utilities & Transportation Commission

This is an appeal from an order of the Superior Court for Thurston County which affirmed a ruling of the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission that certain promotional practices of Washington Natural Gas Company were appropriate for a regulated public service corporation. The appeal also challenges the commission’s refusal to allow the intervention of the Oil Heat Institute in the administrative hearing or the amendment of the appellants’ complaint to include the institute’s charges. Stated simply, the suit involves an attempt by the fuel oil industry to halt a program of…