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Friend,
We're finally getting more of the picture regarding what led
to the House Bill 6 scandal. A trove of more than 2,000 records
subpoenaed by the FBI shows how former PUCO chair Sam Randazzo,
Governor Mike DeWine and others acted leading up to and during passage
of HB 6.
The records also prove that, together we are a force to be reckoned
with.
No one exerted more influence over Ohio's corrupt energy
policy than Sam Randazzo. Our Ohio Consumers Power Alliance
project was correct to call for his resignation.
Thank you to the 2,467
members like you who wrote to demand Gov. Mike DeWine remove him from
the PUCO.
Those that were shaping energy policy during these scandalous
past few years must be held to account. Won't you please
help?
We wholeheartedly agree with this editorial from Sunday's Toledo
Blade:
It’s an embarrassment to the very concept of state ethics laws
that a regulator could earn millions from a firm he regulated while
filing Ohio financial disclosure statements.
It would be better to abolish the Ohio Ethics Commission than
to allow this massive failure of process to go unfixed.
New information comes to light every day affirming that
Ohioans have been left in the dark about how our energy policy is
made. But PUCO still hasn't produced all the documents from both
before and after Randazzo's tenure.
We demand to know:
WHY has the PUCO mostly stayed the course with the approach
Randazzo crafted for the agency’s limited and piecemeal response to
the HB 6 scandal?
WHY did Gov. DeWine use his personal email to communicate
with former PUCO chair Sam Randazzo about House Bill 6?
WHY has the PUCO stymied challengers’ fact-finding efforts
in various HB 6-related cases, as well as delaying timelines for those
cases, which won’t wrap up before DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted face
re-election in the fall?
And WHAT, if anything, has DeWine told the PUCO since
Randazzo left about investigating alleged
corruption?
Power A Clean Future Ohio goes to
Washington
On Thursday August 4, Power a Clean
Future Ohio Executive Director Joe Flarida delivered expert testimony
to the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs during its hearing, "Borrowed Time: The Economic Costs of Climate
Change.”
Joe presented the findings from a
first-of-its-kind report, The Bill is Coming Due: Calculating the Financial Cost
of Climate Change to Ohio’s Local Governments, which
provides a conservative estimate of the additional costs that
municipalities can expect to incur due to climate change.
According to the report, local
governments across Ohio will need to increase municipal spending by as
much as $5.9 billion annually by midcentury to adapt to the challenges
of a worsening climate crisis.
Your support is what makes the
difference.
The power to check corruption lies
with you.
The task now is to never let
up. We hope you can make a special contribution to
support our government accountability work today.
Thank you!
P.S. We are hiring Campaign Canvassers in Columbus and Cincinnati! Please apply or share
with a friend. Thank you!
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