Lay worked in the early 1970s as a federal energy regulator.
Both state officials and federal energy regulators said today that they would question other companies about whether that was true.
The burden of resolving the dispute now shifts to federal energy regulators.
Elsewhere, the Spanish government on Friday widened the veto power of its energy regulator to include foreign bidders.
Many of those strategies have already been publicly disclosed and examined by federal energy regulators and by Congress.
They're not countless; they've been counted by the energy regulator, Ofgem, in its annual report.
The license is not a construction contract, and federal energy regulators must approve the project before it can go forward.
In this respect, the role of national energy regulators is central.
We also aim to bring the regulations properly into operation, and to establish an agency for cooperation between energy regulators.
But it is Peabody's economic argument, not the environmental opposition's, that is resonating throughout the electricity industry and among energy regulators.