CO2-Belching Ohio Going Green

Nearly forty years ago, Ohio’s “chocolate-brown, oily” Cuyahoga River burned. But today, the state is stepping out in front on renewable energy usage. Now that’s what I call progress.

From Gristmill:

Ohio gets 87 percent of its electricity from coal (and the rest is mostly nukes), putting it in the upper echelon of coal-using states in the nation (No. 2 behind Texas, to be precise).

And that, friends, is about to change, because yesterday the Ohio Legislature passed a renewable energy standard requiring utilities to provide 12.5 percent of Ohio’s electricity from clean, renewable energy sources like wind and solar by 2025. This bill has a solar-specific requirement that will result in about 594 MW of solar in the Buckeye State. Not too shabby!

Live in Ohio? Click here to ask Gov. Strickland to sign the bill into law.

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