The Story Behind “The Worst Energy Policy In The United States”

Ohio’s House Bill 6 was “widely recognized as the worst energy policy in the country,” according to a 2020 Vox article by Leah Stokes, an environmental political scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The now-infamous bill gutted renewable energy budgets and bailed out coal and nuclear plants, to the shock, awe, and outrage of nearly everyone who wasn’t a fossil fuel exec or the man who made it all possible – Ohio Speaker of the House of Representatives Larry Householder. The passage of House Bill…