Ohio’s House Bill 6 was widely regarded as the worst energy policy in the United States. The passage of House Bill 6 was so odorous of underlying offense and scandal that it helped to spark an FBI investigation into Rep Larry Householder’s activity. While Ohio repealed parts of the bill as it became embroiled in scandal in March of last year, HB6 still largely favors fossil fuels over renewables. Ohio’s House Bill 6 was “widely recognized as the worst energy policy in the country,” according to a 2020 Vox article by Leah Stokes , an environmental political scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The now-infamous bill gutted renewable energy budgets and bailed out coal and nuclear plants, to the shock, awe, and outrage of nearly everyone who wasn’t a fossil fuel exec or the man who made it all possible – Ohio Speaker of the House of […]