AUGUSTA (AP) — The chairman of the Maine Public Utilities Commission is leaving his post two years early.
Tom Welch, chairman of the three-member panel, will retire in December. His term on the commission was supposed to run through March 2017.
Welch tells the Maine Public Broadcasting Network that he feels some “twinges of guilt” because he’s leaving while the commission struggles with important issues, like expanding a natural gas pipeline in Maine, telephone regulation and modernizing the electric grid.
Another commissioner will also be leaving shortly. David Littell’s term ends next March.
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