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Ohio's senior senator, Democrat Sherrod Brown, has been around a long time, and he knows that good legislation is good politics.
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New rules from the US Environmental Protection Agency require them to reduce 90% of climate-change causing emissions by 2039, which will affect the four coal burning power plants in Ohio.
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Jenifer French was appointed as Public Utilities Chair of Ohio in 2021. Sam Randazzo, former head of the PUCO, died of apparent suicide earlier this year after he was indicted for bribery.
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Kentucky nurses are feeling a sense of relief over a new law shielding them from criminal liability for medical errors.
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The Callery Pear tree is an invasive species with a risk of causing economic or environmental harm.
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After decades of efforts to change a provision of state law shielding people who rape their spouses from prosecution, the Ohio Senate has voted unanimously to remove that loophole.
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