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The federal accusations Borges, Householder and three others are accused of participating in a nearly $61 million bribery scheme to help Householder win control of the Ohio House in early 2019, pass a $1 billion bailout for the two nuclear plants and defend that law – House Bill 6 – against a ballot initiative to block it.  Householder and Borges have pleaded not guilty to racketeering, asserting their innocence publicly. Householder's strategist Jeff Longstreth and FirstEnergy Solutions lobbyist Juan Cespedes have pleaded guilty to their roles. GOP superlobbyist Neil Clark, who pleade...

1:04 House Bill 6 set up a cost recovery mechanism for two coal plants owned by the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation, one plant in Ohio and another in Indiana. Jeff Jacobson, with the Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel, backs a bipartisan Senate bill, SB117, that seeks to end that subsidy structure. Jacobson says it can guarantee hundreds of millions of dollars to coal plants struggling to sell in the energy market. "The House Bill 6 subsidies have worsened the coal plants' response to the market by removing the market's discipline for increasing efficiencies or decreasing expenses. Consum...

The state's consumer watchdog is calling for the repeal of coal plant subsidies, which were approved in the controversial nuclear bailout, HB6. A bill

Small business takes on big job at Ohio power plants I-Team probes utility sales of retired plants Posted: 5:56 AM, May 03, 2021 Updated: 2021-05-03 06:13:24-04 Emily Maxwell | WCPO An aerial view of a coal yard next to an open coal ash pond at the Beckjord power plant. CINCINNATI — Ron Froh added a hunting photo to his Facebook profile in November, prompting a friend to ask where he bagged the 8-point buck. “I own 2,000 acres in Ohio,” he replied. That was an understatement. Ron Froh, CEO of Commercial Liability Partners, made this his Facebook profile photo last November. F...

One of the Country’s 10 Largest Coal Plants Just Got a Retirement Date. What About the Rest? The largest coal-fired power plants keep on going, even as many smaller ones close. May 3, 2021 Emissions rise from stacks the Duke Energy Corp. Gibson Station power plant at dusk in Owensville, Indiana, on Thursday, July 23, 2015. Credit: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images Related To survive among the shrinking fleet of U.S. coal-fired power plants, it helps to be extremely big. On April 22, American Electric Power announced that it would close the Rockport Plant in southwest Indiana by 2028,...