Article 4M3JN While the planet burns, Ohio's coal industry gets a bailout | Leah C Stokes

While the planet burns, Ohio's coal industry gets a bailout | Leah C Stokes

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Leah C Stokes
from Environment | The Guardian on (#4M3JN)

I have spent five years investigating state efforts to roll back clean energy laws. Ohio just passed the worst legislation yet

Bowing to the interests of a few deep-pocketed utilities, Ohio has enacted a controversial new law, dubbed HB 6, subsidizing dirty, decades-old coal plants and gutting the state's clean energy programs.

I have spent the past five years researching states' efforts to roll back clean energy laws. This Ohio bill - which Governor Mike DeWine signed the day it was passed - is the worst yet.

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