The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear former Ohio House speaker Larry Householder’s appeal of his 2023 bribery conviction and 20-year prison sentence tied to his corrupt passage of the HB 6 law that bailed out two coal-burning power plants. The court didn’t state its reasons for denying the appeal Monday. It also rejected… Read more »
The staff of the Ohio Power Siting Board has recommended denying the application to build the Grange Solar Grazing Center, a 500MW solar project proposed for Logan County, Ohio. The recommendation follows months of opposition led by Bud Christman, the owner of a marina on Indian Lake in northwestern. Christman created the Indian Lake Advocacy… Read more »
The Indian Lake Advocacy Group, which apparently violated its tax-exempt nonprofit status by openly advocating for the election of an Ohio representative who’s now the group’s lobbyist, is seeking people to oppose the construction of a solar project in Logan County. The group wants potential opponents who live near the proposed Grange Solar project to… Read more »
Just days after leaving the Ohio legislature, Republican former Rep. Jon Cross has resurfaced as a lobbyist representing the nonprofit group that apparently violated federal law by openly advocating for Cross’ reelection last year. Ohio lobbying records show the Indian Lake Advocacy Group, a tax-exempt nonprofit run by marina owner Bud Christman, is one of… Read more »
The Allegany County, N.Y., Planning Board declined to adopt an attempt from a solitary landowner to place a one-year moratorium on the development of solar and battery power projects in the county that has already approved several renewable energy projects. During its deliberations Jan. 15, the board sent the issue back to the Town of… Read more »
In his farewell note to constituents, Ohio Rep. Jon Cross, R-Findlay, touted the money he brought to his district, including $5 million for dredging and weed removal in Indian Lake in northwest Ohio. But that money is on hold after a Checks & Balances Project report on Aug. 21, 2024, that the group intended to… Read more »
The federal agency that collects data about how power plants generate electricity, the fuel they use and how much it costs could be a target for budget cutters or privatization in the upcoming Donald Trump administration, federal budget and other records show. During Trump’s first term in office between 2017 and 2021, he attempted to… Read more »
Despite a surge in the number of electricity-hungry data centers opening in central Ohio, the coal-fired power plants owned by Ohio Valley Electric Corp. (OVEC) are no closer to profitability, according to a report from the bond rating agency Fitch. “While regional demand growth (especially from data centers) may tighten energy markets, Fitch expects OVEC’s… Read more »
As it continues to whitewash the effects of the state’s corrupt HB 6 law, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio routinely strikes expert witness testimony that highlights the law’s corrupt origins or the capture of PUCO’s staff by utility interests. During the first audit into the effects of the 2019 law that requires Ohio ratepayers… Read more »
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio continues to protect the coal company whose owner was one of the original donors to the dark money group that bribed former Ohio House speaker Larry Householder to ram the state’s corrupt HB 6 law through the legislature. Resource Fuels of Columbus is owned by Wayne Boich, a longtime… Read more »
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