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FirstEnergy admitted to bribing House Speaker Larry Householder to pass HB 6, which gave a windfall of your cash to subsidize old coal and nuclear plants. Since then, ratepayers (you) paid $51 million in the first half of 2021 and $155 million in 2020 to Ohio's big utility companies.



The coal plant subsidies that were quietly inserted into HB 6 to keep other Ohio electric utilities from fighting HB 6’s nuclear bailout remain a part of your monthly electric bill.



SB 117/HB 351 would repeal those subsidies



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The Eisenhower-era Ohio Valley Electric Coal plants (OVEC) ––Kyger Creek in Ohio, and Clifty Creek in Indiana––have both been losing money for years, and it's coming out of our pockets. Ohio ratepayers have been forced to pay $166 million and counting <[link removed]>to bail out the OVEC coal plants.



Every month we pay for these polluting, inefficient plants with our pocketbooks and our health.



You can watch a running ticker <[link removed]> of the subsidies you paid for and the pollution released from the OVEC coal plants via the Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel website:



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We want House Bill 6 – all of it – gone.



Urge your legislators to support SB 117/HB 351.This bipartisan effort <[link removed]> will not only repeal the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation (OVEC) taxpayer-paid subsidies included in HB 6, but also refund Ohio ratepayers like you.



Thanks for taking action!







Ohio Citizen Action



P.S. You might have missed the news on Friday that Dan McCarthy, Governor DeWine’s legislative director resigned. <[link removed]> When he was still a lobbyist for FirstEnergy, McCarthy started a dark money group - Partners For Progress - that formed a link in the money chain between FirstEnergy, Generation Now and the effort to pass HB6.





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