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CLEVELAND — “Akron’s FirstEnergy Corp. effectively wants its customers to be forced to invest in a handful of money-losing FirstEnergy power plants in hopes they will become profitable again and pay dividends. That’s the gist of an audacious rate-increase request that 1.9 million residential ratepayers and other customers of the Illuminating, Ohio Edison and Toledo […]
NEW YORK, NY — “Why should customers pay for FirstEnergy’s mistakes? The Ohio-based power company made a string of bad business decisions that are hurting shareholders, customers, taxpayers, and the environment. Now the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio is mulling a bailout proposal that would require customers to pay off […]
AKRON — “A hard reality is that coal won’t soon disappear as an energy source, not when it accounts for almost three-quarters of the generation mix in Ohio. A coal-burning Sammis plant, equipped with the best-available pollution controls, arguably has a place then. What a sound energy strategy requires is […]
AKRON — “FirstEnergy reaped the early benefits of the deregulation of the electricity market. But as the cost of natural gas (a competitor to FirstEnergy’s plants) fell and demand for electricity waned, it has been getting harder for FirstEnergy to compete. Now that its coal and nuclear power can’t contend, […]
Major impact to be felt on wide range of businesses, including insurance companies, power plants and local chambers of commerce COLUMBUS — “Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s veto pen — used more this year than on any other budget during his tenure as governor — will have a major impact on […]
COLUMBUS — “Gov. John Kasich has used his line-item veto to reject a property-tax break for owners of power plants. The change in tax law had been sought by American Electric Power and was inserted into the larger budget bill passed by Ohio House and Senate leaders. It was opposed […]
COLUMBUS — With just hours to go before the deadline last night, Governor John Kasich signed the 2016-2017 budget into law, minus the last-minute amendment that would have transferred a key utility property tax on to consumers. Ohio Citizen Action members and friends were heard. More than 500 phone calls […]
COLUMBUS — “FirstEnergy continues to fight against full disclosure of details in its bid to have Ohio ratepayers guarantee sales for three less profitable coal plants plus the Davis-Besse nuclear plant, even as it adds new rate proposals. FirstEnergy says the new provisions are separate from its proposed power purchase […]
COLUMBUS — “For FirstEnergy, $5 billion is riding on its proposal. That’s the difference in projected costs being debated by FirstEnergy and its opponents. The company estimates its customers ultimately will save $2 billion in its plan, but an analysis by the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel projects a $3 billion shortfall […]
COLUMBUS — “Environmentalists have said for years that coal and other fossil fuels are not sustainable sources of energy. Now advocates of green energy are arguing that coal has also become economically unsustainable. Coal has reportedly become a bad investment, even in countries with large coal reserves. FirstEnergy Corp. began […]
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Clean air victory!Today we learned we have won our lawsuit against U.S. EPA for failure to update air
Victory! Clean energy majority in Ohio won the day todayCOLUMBUS — We did it! The pro-clean energy majority in Ohio won the day today when
Victory on utility bailoutsOhio electricity customers won a huge victory April 27, when the Federal Energy
Victory! Governor Kasich line-item vetoes the Tangible Personal Property Tax giveaway to utilitiesCOLUMBUS — With just hours to go before the deadline last night, Governor John Kasich
Cleveland’s controversial plan to build ‘trash-to-energy’ facility declared deadCLEVELAND — “A long-debated proposition to build an expensive and controversial
Victory! Cincinnati chooses clean, green energy – againCINCINNATI — “Yesterday the people of Cincinnati achieved another victory in the
Incinerator won’t pollute region’s air• writing personal letters to Mayor Jackson • putting yard signs in our yards •
Cincinnati becomes first major city to offer 100% green electricity to residentsCincinnati voters overwhelmingly supported 100% renewable energy as a priority
Coal plants drop off the mapEach year 819,195,781 pounds of pollution will NOT be dumped into our air and water
FirstEnergy, citing impact of environmental regulations, will retire six coal-fired power plants14,280 citizens sent letters to decision makers supporting the campaign