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Dirty energy politics in Ohio / Nathanael Johnson

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4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Writer Nathanael Johnson on his report "How a $60 million bribery scandal helped Ohio pass the ‘worst energy policy in the country’" for Grist. https://grist.org/politics/how-a-60-million-bribery-scandal-helped-ohio-pass-the-worst-energy-policy-in-the-country/

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We all know our future does not include fossil fuels like coal.

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It's obvious to anyone who's paying attention that clean energy and alternative power sources are inevitable.

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We simply cannot continue to contribute to worsening climate change by burning more carbon emitting

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fuels that cause global warming.

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That future was so self-evident

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that more than 10 years ago,

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states across the US passed clean energy legislation and enacted all sorts of green plans back in the aughts.

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The fossil fuel industry had finally met its match in solar and wind power were going

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to light our bright future.

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But not so fast, said the dirty energy crowd.

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