Though lawmakers are out of the Statehouse for the summer, many issues remain that might get a lot of attention when they get back. They include Ohio鈥檚 green energy policies.
As of now, the laws that required electric utilities to provide a certain amount of renewable energy and achieve a certain amount of efficiency are on hold. But those policies are secheduled to go back into effect at the end of the year.
Several conservative lawmakers want to pass a bill that extends the freeze.
Environmental advocates such as Trish Demeter with the , plan to spend this summer fighting that proposal.
鈥淭he summer break could provide an opportunity for thoughtful conversations among reasonable parties to come up with a plan to get our state back on track, but time鈥檚 a wasting.鈥�
One of those parties might by Gov. John Kasich鈥檚 office. Kasich has called an indefinite freeze of the standards 鈥渦nacceptable.鈥�
