Monday 27 July 2020

They spent millions to protect polluters. Then they got busted by the FBI.

They spent millions to protect polluters. Then they got busted by the FBI.

A year ago, the Ohio legislature rammed through a law to save four unprofitable nuclear and coal-fired power plants from retirement, while it rolled back energy efficiency and renewable targets and passed on the $1.3 billion cost to customers. Opponents of the HB6 law, which included an unlikely alliance of environmentalists and the natural gas industry, began to organize a referendum to repeal it, saying it amounted to a corporate bailout for the utility player FirstEnergy.
Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/07/they-spent-millions-to-protect-polluters-then-they-got-busted-by-the-fbi/?source=Snapzu

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