DWP backs down on power plant rules

Under pressure from environmental groups, the Department of Water and Power backed away Thursday from seeking an exemption to state law limiting the use of seawater to cool its three coastal power plants. Daily News.

Interim DWP General Manager Austin Beutner said the agency had abandoned its efforts to win support for a change in state law and instead would work with the state Water Resources Control Board to achieve a cost-effective compromise.