Ohio House Bill (HB) 201 was recently passed by both the state House and Senate and now sits on the desk of Gov. Mike DeWine (a somewhat swampy Republican, although far superior to governors like Kathy Hochul and Josh Shapiro). HB 201 started life as a bill to block the Buckeye State from following California’s lead in adopting emissions that are stricter than national regulations and call for the phaseout of the internal combustible engine by 2035. Somewhere along the way, the bill added an additional measure allowing the state’s natural gas utilities to recover the costs of installing new pipelines by tacking a fee on utility bills. It is the pipeline amendment that has the radicals going nuts in the state.
