Dive Summary:

• Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced on Thursday that her office will seek $16 million in fines against National Grid after what she deemed to be inadequate responses to storm damage last year.
• The fine announcement comes after Coakley launched a larger investigation into utility storm responses.
• NSTAR and Western Massachusetts Electric Company may also be fined as a result of outages that affected more than 500,000 customers in the state.

From the article:

National Grid could face more than $16 million in fines for its response to two major storms last year that left hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts customers without power.

Attorney General Martha Coakley said Thursday that her office is seeking penalties against the company because of its inadequate response to Tropical Storm Irene last August and the surprise October snowstorm that pummeled the state. ...