What Gov. John Kasich's stance on Senate Bill 310 says about his politics - and what it doesn't say
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2014/05/what_gov_john_kasichs_stance_o.htmlWhat Gov. John Kasich's stance on Senate Bill 310 says about his politics -- and what it doesn't say
By Henry J. Gomez, Northeast Ohio Media Group
on May 30, 2014
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Gov. John Kasich is going to sign Senate Bill 310, a measure that will place a two-year freeze on renewable energy standards in Ohio...
...SB 310 would freeze mandates passed in 2008 that give utilities until 2025 to slash customers' power usage by 22 percent and get 25 percent of their power from renewable and advanced technology energy sources. During the freeze, a 12-member legislative study committee would consider changes to the standards.
The bill would also allow large industrial electricity users to opt out of energy efficiency programs and scrap the rule that half of utilities' renewable power, as required by the mandates, must come from in-state sources.
Ohio stands to be the first state to significantly ease such rules. Opponents worry the changes will harm the economy, costing the state alternative-energy jobs. And some of Kasich's critics see in SB 310 another strike against the sensible centrist and compassionate conservative he has portrayed himself as in the last year.... MORE
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Almost made me wonder if the writer was just being snarky. 
I think this is the piece of legislation that also gets rid of LEED (Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design) standards for state buildings. I have been
working on a LEED house for the past 1.5 years ..... I am doing the landscaping/
bio filtration/native systems ....... It is a solar home in New Albany, OH and the
homeowner bought a Chevy Volt last fall and he just plugs it into his home and he
has bought ONE TANK OF GAS since last October but the republicans and Kasich
still say "we have to study LEED to see if it works."
I know that LEED works I have been seeing it with my own eyes.
BTW we also have Wood Ducks too.
