Opinion

Opinion: West Virginia ratepayers are not paying for the FirstEnergy bribery scandal in Ohio

By Charlotte Lane, chair

West Virginia Public Service Commission

You may have heard about the FirstEnergy bribery scandal in Ohio.  Federal prosecutors have accused the former speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives of leading a FirstEnergy supported effort to pass a billion dollar bailout of its nuclear plants.  As Chairman of the Public Service Commission of West Virginia, I want to assure you that expenses related to FirstEnergy’s illegal lobbying activities in Ohio or…