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![Rep. Mark Romanchuk (R-Ontario) presents his bill, HB772, to Ohio Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/screen_shot_2020-11-10_at_1.59.55_pm-e1605199184902-900x422.png)
Legislature Looking At Different Routes For Potential HB6 Repeal
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — An Ohio Senate committee held a hearing on two different pieces of legislation that address the sweeping energy law, HB6, which creates more than $1… Read More
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Nuclear Bailout Group Paying People To Follow Referendum Petitioners
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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Generation Now, one of the well-funded groups in the fight over Ohio’s nuclear power plant bailout, is monitoring the referendum petition workers by putting their own people on the ground…. Read More
![FILE – This April 4, 2017, file photo shows the entrance to FirstEnergy Corp.'s Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/david_besse_nuclear_plant_-_by_ron_schwane-e1564149960519-900x422.jpg)
Nuclear Plants Want Court to Stop Vote on Financial Rescue
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The owner of Ohio’s two nuclear power plants is asking the state Supreme Court to block a proposed statewide vote that aims to overturn a financial… Read More
![Voters cast their ballots on Election Day in McArthur, Ohio.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/3-e1524771260692-900x422.jpg)
Pro-Nuclear Bailout Group Joins Battle Over Ohio’s New Energy Law
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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A group is looking to collect signatures statewide to ask voters to overturn the law that bails out nuclear power plants. But a competing group has formed to argue in favor of… Read More
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Developer Cuts Plans for Power Plant After Nuclear Bailout
By: Associated Press
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LORDSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio electricity company says it is canceling plans to build a gas-fired power plant because of the state’s recent nuclear bailout. The Vindicator reports that the plant… Read More
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Professor Sees Flaw In Argument That Energy Bill Is A “Tax Increase”
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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A debate is brewing over whether a group can put the state’s new nuclear bailout bill before voters next year as referendum. The dispute questions if the increased rate on electric bills should… Read More
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State Plane Was Poised to Retrieve Lawmakers For Energy Vote
By: Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio House leaders almost sent a state-owned airplane to Chicago to retrieve lawmakers from a conference to vote on a key energy bill that had fallen… Read More
![FILE – This April 4, 2017, file photo shows the entrance to FirstEnergy Corp.'s Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/david_besse_nuclear_plant_-_by_ron_schwane-e1564149960519-900x422.jpg)
Group Seeking Possible Energy Law Referendum For 2020 Ballot
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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Ohioans Against Corporate Bailouts is leading the charge for a possible ballot referendum to stop the new energy law that would bail out the state’s two nuclear plants through $150… Read More
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Lawmakers Pass Blockbuster Bill Overhauling Energy Policy In Favor Of Nuclear, Coal
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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The Ohio House has voted in favor of the sweeping energy bill, HB6, that bails out two nuclear power plants through $150 million in ratepayer subsidies. The comprehensive bill also sets… Read More
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FirstEnergy Corp, FirstEnergy Solutions: What’s The Difference?
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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The Ohio House is considering a piece of legislation, HB6, that will create a new fee on electric bills and scrap the state’s green energy standards. FirstEnergy Solutions’ two nuclear plants… Read More