The law puts a two-year hold on renewable targets with a
compromise Kasich backed avoiding a full repeal being pushed through the state
senate.
Advanced-energy businesses.. Environmentalists.. Civil
rights advocates and faith leaders had opposed the bill, while the Ohio Chamber
of Commerce and other influential business groups, utilities, and industrial
electricity users favored the signing.
State Senator Joe Schiavoni says he opposes this law.
“I’m worried that by just calling it a temporary freeze that
it may be a permanent freeze and that’s kind of the speech I gave on the floor
and why I voted no on the bill. I think that we need to encourage any and all
types of alternative energy,” said Senator Joe Schiavoni. (D) Boardman.
If the legislature fails to act – the thresholds would
resume in 2017.
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