Bribery and Bailouts: The Ohio Utility Scandal
Podcast: DrilledPublished On: Sat Aug 01 2020
Description: The FBI arrested Ohio House of Representatives Speaker Larry Householder for racketeering or, as the state attorney general put it, "bribery, that's what it was." Private utility FirstEnergy paid politicians, including Householder, to pass a corporate bailout to keep coal and nuclear plants open while blocking renewables. Leah Stokes, University of California Santa Barbara political science professor and author of Short Circuiting Policy, explains how it all went down.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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