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Ohio Power Siting Board recommends against Grange Solar project
2025-02-25
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 »
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Critical energy agency may face privatization
2025-01-8
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 »
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Resource Fuels owner filed no lobbying reports despite pushing for HB 6
2023-12-13
The Boich Companies filed Ohio forms claiming they conducted no lobbying from 2017 through 2019, even though court records show their officials were intimately involved in the passage of HB 6, the law requiring state ratepayers to bail out two coal-fired power plants. Boich’s lobbying reports are another facet of the company’s stealth campaign to… Read more »
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Wind Opponent’s Claims of Economic Ruin Upended by Facts
2022-03-23
During a rally last month in Montcalm County, Mich., Dave Stevens told protesters that the last four years of his life have been “the worst of my life” since the approval of a wind project near his home of Mt. Haley Township in Midland County. “It’s only going to get worse,” Stevens told the crowd… Read more »
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