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Utility Grant Poses Potential Conflict for Michigan Ratepayer Board Appointee

John P. Pelissero, Ph.D., senior scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, quoted in Energy News.

“It looks a lot like a clear conflict of interest,” said John Pelissero, an applied ethics expert at Santa Clara University. “You can’t be receiving a benefit from a company when you’re supposed to also be responsible for enabling others to regulate or oversee what that company is doing.” 

John P. Pelissero, Ph.D., senior scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, quoted in Energy News.

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