CLEVELAND — “Terrible ideas periodically surface in the Ohio General Assembly. Another did Monday— which might as well be called the Utility Fossil Fuel Protection Act.
The proposal, sponsored by Sen. William J Seitz, a suburban Cincinnati Republican, would extend, through 2019, Ohio’s freeze on renewable-energy and efficiency standards that the legislature — in virtually unanimous roll calls — approved in 2008.
The standards required that a gradually increasing share of the electricity sold to Ohioans must come from alternative energy sources, including advanced nuclear and solar.
—editorial, Cleveland Plain Dealer
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