FirstEnergy has disclosed it is negotiating with the U.S. Department of Justice regarding its role in a $60 million bribery and racketeering scheme involving Ohio Rep. Larry Householder (R), the former speaker of the House of Representatives. Householder and four associates were indicted in July 2020 on corruption charges in...

The battle waged by some Ohio Republican lawmakers for more than a decade to limit wind and solar development is back on the front burner, this time with the support of some rural voters who say the decisions of the state’s Power Siting Board (PSB) on utility-scale projects should be...

Ohio lawmakers this week voted unanimously to eliminate the $1.1 billion customer-paid subsidy they created in July 2019 to bail out the state’s two nuclear power plants then owned by a former FirstEnergy subsidiary that had filed for bankruptcy protection. A spokesman for Energy Harbor, the company that emerged from...