Coal subsidies paid as part of scandal-plague House Bill 6 to end | Reporters Roundtable
Ohio electric customers will soon stop propping up two coal plants with subsidies tacked onto their bills. The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio voted to zero out the charges as of Aug. 14. The subsidies were part of the scandal-tainted House Bill 6 that also bailed out nuclear power plants. Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and former Ohio GOP Chairman Matt Borges were sentenced to prison for their role in a bribery scheme connected to the passage of the bill.
We will begin Friday’s “Sound of Ideas Reporters Roundtable with the removal of the subsidies and why the audit is being…
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