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We continue to organize communities around the state to
address climate change and build a clean energy economy,
and...
We're not giving up on a
full repeal of HB 6
FirstEnergy is paying $230 million to avoid prosecution for their
crimes, but the deferred prosecution agreement does not require them to disclose who funneled money to
elected officials to buy HB6 votes.
The Department of Justice limited disclosures to 2021 and
beyond, maintaining the veil over the utility's
activities in 2019 and 2020. The utility still faces multiple regulatory
investigations and audits into the HB6 corruption scandal.
It’s politically convenient but
deceitful for legislators to pretend HB6 is repealed
This
recent Plain Dealer editorial sums up the lingering damage of HB6:
HB6 has forced Ohioans to pay more
than $140.4 million in subsidies to bail out the Kyger Creek coal plant in Gallia County, Ohio,
and Clifty Creek coal plant in Indiana. Over that same
period the two plants have
spewed more than 17 million tons of carbon dioxide into the
air.
"For all this, Ohioans can thank our General Assembly, which has
failed to yank House Bill 6, root and branch, out of the Revised
Code."
Our calls for a
deeper investigation have been heard
Questions about the role of former PUCO chairman Sam
Randazzo, Governor DeWine and his staff in the scandal continue making
headlines:
 Rep. Casey Weinstein and Rep Jeff Crossman have called for the firings of
Governor Mike DeWine staffers Laurel Dawson and Dan
McCarthy and the duo is calling on Ohio Inspector General Randall
Meyer to investigate the governor's staff.
Rep
Crossman has also asked PUCO Chair Jenifer French to turn over
documents related to the scandal-ridden HB6 energy law, the proposed
Icebreaker wind farm in Lake Erie, and “other projects Sam Randazzo
personally involved himself with.”
FirstEnergy CEO and President Steven Strah admitted
Randazzo helped the company fix its “Ohio hole” after his appointment
as PUCO chair. A judge in Columbus has frozen $8 million of Sam
Randazzo's assets to preserve them for future collection.
We won't stop until this bill is
repealed in full
Fighting corruption is not a
partisan issue. Please contribute and help us
root out this
corrupt law once and for all.
Thanks for sticking with us!
Ohio Citizen Action
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