as this helps us provide more public service reporting. Documents made available last week show how House Majority Floor Leader Bill Seitz, R-Cincinnati, championed gutting Ohio’s clean energy standards in the state’s 2019 coal and nuclear bailout law. He has since served as a force against repeal. Claims in a federal complaint released in July indicate that the law was at the heart of an alleged corruption scheme involving roughly $60 million. Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, R-Glenford, and others were arrested last summer. Failure to repeal the law in 2020 was “an astounding failure by Republican leadership,” said Rep. David Leland, D-Columbus, as the legislature adjourned last month.
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The 100 kilowatt Direct Current Fast Charger in Malone is the fourth location completed as art of a statewide EVolve NY effort.
(Malone Telegram photo â Alexander Violo) MALONE The first high-speed electric vehicle charging hub is up and running in Franklin County. The first fast charger for electric vehicles in Franklin County is located in the parking lot of the Franklin County Courthouse in Malone, according to a press release from the New York Power Authority. According to the press release, the first charging hub is a 100-kilowatt Direct Current Fast Charger, with two charging ports and the option to add a second fast charger to the site in the future if needed.
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MALONE Nearby Franklin County now has its first fast charger for electric vehicles (EV). The 100 kilowatt Direct Current Fast Charger (DCFC) at the Franklin County Courthouse in Malone is the fourth location completed as part of a statewide EVolve NY charging network being installed along key travel corridors and in urban areas to encourage travelers to drive EVs.
The Village of Canton has two electric vehicle charging stations installed on the east side of Hodskin Street. Other EV chargers can be found in Canton at St. Lawrence University and the Best Western, and at Clarkson in Potsdam.
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When it comes to HB6, the nuclear bailout law connected to a racketeering investigation, House Speaker Bob Cupp (R-Lima) has gone from saying the House will find a way to repeal and/or replace the law, to wanting more discussion on the issue, to saying the House ran out of time to come to a consensus.
That was in the span of five months. Now it appears the House will finish the legislative session without making a single change to HB6.
Cupp says he wants to revisit the issue in the new year.
HB6 creates new charges on electric bills for a $1 billion nuclear power plant bailout, in addition to subsidizing coal plants and scrapping the state s green energy standards. But federal investigators allege the bailout is the result of quid-pro-quo between a utility alleged to be FirstEnergy and former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder.
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A Franklin County judge has granted a preliminary injunction that blocks the owner of Ohio s two nuclear power plants from collecting fees as part of HB6, the controversial bailout law at the center of a federal racketeering investigation.
At a hearing Monday, Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Chris Brown granted a preliminary injunction to halt Energy Harbor, formerly known as FirstEnergy Solutions, from collecting increased fees from ratepayers. To not impose an injunction would be to allow certain parties to prevail, Brown said. It would give the O.K. that bribery is allowed in the state of Ohio and that any ill-gotten gains can be received.