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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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Grant to Ohio nonprofit that backed candidate now on hold
2025-01-17
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 »
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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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PUCO wipes mentions of HB 6’s corruption from the record
2024-12-2
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 »
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Anti-solar activist confirms ties to gas industry, dark money group
2024-08-28
Jared Yost, leader of the anti-solar Knox Smart Development group, confirmed in recent sworn testimony before the Ohio Power Siting Board that his group was supported by the Ariel Corp. and its allied Empowerment Alliance. Checks & Balances Project reported last March that Yost was a former employee of Ariel, whose former CEO is one… Read more »
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Stonewalling public disclosure, a PUCO tradition, continues
2024-06-5
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio continues to stonewall requests for the names of staff members who recommended a protective order that hid key details of its audit into the state’s corrupt HB 6 law. PUCO lawyers continue to claim they have no records about the staff’s recommendation to grant the order issued last July…. Read more »
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