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Entergy has until June 8 to produce a host of documents and information relative to the New Orleans City Council's investigation into the use of paid actors promoting Entergy's gas-fired power plant planned for New Orleans East.

The practice of "astroturfing," revealed by investigative news outlet The Lens, spurred the City Council to hire a third-party investigator to look into the utility ? Entergy has placed the blame with a public relations firm it hired to build a "grassroots" campaign that, Entergy says, hired a subcontractor that paid people to show up at City Council hearings on the plant.

At-Large City Councilmember Helena Moreno ? who also is chair of the council's utilities committee ? sent a letter to the company May 29 following last week's approval of a motion detailing the information that Entergy now is required to send over.?