The two-minute warning has sounded in the high-stakes energy
game Ohio's Republican lawmakers are playing with the state rules requiring
utilities to adopt energy efficiency programs and embrace wind and solar power.
At least three sets of major amendments were submitted late
Friday to the Public Utilities Committee of the Ohio Senate, where Chairman
William Seitz, a Cincinnati Republican, has been holding hearings on his bill,
a proposal that opponents say would effectively abolish the five-year-old
regulations.
