Puerto Rico power company fires back as Congress demands answers to ongoing outages

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Persistent power outages have forced schools and workplaces to close and sparked concern for those who depend on insulin or oxygen.

A Puerto Rican power company fired back Friday after the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources ordered Luma, which is in charge of transmission and distribution of power on the island, to release key data as outages in the U.S. territory persist, the Associated Press reported.

The demand in a letter sent by the committee was issued just days after officials, including company CEO Wayne Stensby, testified before the committee. Without addressing the questions and concerns raised by the committee, Luma said in a Friday statement that its 31,000-plus employees work hard despite"the numerous and very difficult challenges from those that oppose the transformation," adding that there has been a lot of misinformation.The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources ordered a Puerto Rican energy company in charge of transmission and distribution of power on the island to release key data as outages persist.

 

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