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Before Congress, Mike Carey Was a Registered Lobbyist on House Bill 6 — the Law at the Center of Ohio's Biggest Bribery Scandal. Those Two Coal Plants Cost Ohioans $683 Million.

Before Congress, Mike Carey Was a Registered Lobbyist on House Bill 6 — the Law at the Center of Ohio's Biggest Bribery Scandal. Those Two Coal Plants Cost Ohioans $683 Million.

HB 6 forced Ohio ratepayers to prop up two coal plants built in the 1950s at $233,000 a day. The nuclear part was repealed within a year of Larry Householder's arrest. The coal part survived until 2025. Carey lobbied on the bill, and now sits on Ways and Means.

Pennsylvania Gets the Data Centers and the Electric Bills. All Ten of Its U.S. House Republicans Voted for a Ten-Year Ban on States Enforcing Their Own AI Rules.

Pennsylvania Gets the Data Centers and the Electric Bills. All Ten of Its U.S. House Republicans Voted for a Ten-Year Ban on States Enforcing Their Own AI Rules.

A Democrat toured 15 Pennsylvania counties and heard about data centers more than anything else. Meanwhile all ten of the state's Republicans in the U.S. House voted for a ten-year ban on states enforcing their own AI rules, nine of them voted for a law projected to push power bills higher, and Harrisburg's $2 billion tax break for data centers is still on the books.