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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Ohio Newsletter for Friday March 22, 2024 ( 7 items )  

Dayton Foundation Reaches Record Level of Giving
DAYTON, Ohio, March 21 -- The Dayton Foundation issued the following news release: The Dayton Foundation, the oldest and largest community foundation in the Greater Dayton region of Ohio, announced today that it has surpassed $1.12 billion in current assets as of December 31, 2023. The Foundation now is among the top four percent of more than 800 community foundations nationwide for assets under management and the third largest community foundation in Ohio. Additionally, Foundation fund holders  more

Human Rights Campaign Equality Votes PAC Condemns Radical Anti-Equality Ohio Senate Candidate Bernie Moreno
WASHINGTON, March 21 -- The Human Rights Campaign issued the following news release: Last night, extreme anti-equality politician Bernie Moreno won Ohio's Republican U.S. Senate primary. Moreno is a self-serving and radical politician who will say and do anything to get elected-including spreading hateful rhetoric about LGBTQ+ Ohioans and embracing policies that take away Ohioans' freedoms: * Moreno supported the ban on health care for transgender youth that was vetoed by Republican Gov. Mike   more

Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis: Beetaloo a $10bn Pipe Dream for Minor Gas Producers as Big Players Desert Basin
CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 22 (TNSres) -- The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis issued the following news release on March 21, 2024: * * * Cash-strapped junior explorers push ahead with ambitious plans to commercialise reserves despite looming LNG glut * * * Key Takeaways: Shale gas from the Beetaloo Basin would enter a saturated global LNG market at a competitive disadvantage due to large quantities of cheaper LNG from Qatar and the US coming online. * * * Tamboran's NTLN  more

Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis: South Korea's Misplaced Faith in a Fossil Fuel-Oriented Power Mix Cost an Additional $17bn in a Year
CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 22 (TNSres) -- The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis issued the following news release: * * * High electricity prices during the global energy crisis attributed to fossil fuel overreliance in the power mix, lack of power market competitiveness, and delayed energy transition * * * A new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) unravels that South Korea's overreliance on fossil fuels, coupled with weak market competi  more

NGAUS Applauds New Co-Sponsors of Bill to Create a Space National Guard
WASHINGTON, March 22 -- The National Guard Association of the U.S. issued the following news release on March 21, 2024: The voice of more than 45,000 current and former National Guard officers today applauded Sens. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, for recently co-sponsoring Senate legislation to create a Space National Guard. The Space National Guard Establishment Act of 2024 (S. 3697) would create a National Guard component under the U.S. Space Force from the approximately 1,00  more

OEC Celebrates OPSB Approval of Largest Solar Project in Ohio History, Oak Run Solar
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 22 -- The Ohio Environmental Council issued the following news release: The Ohio Environmental Council (OEC) applauds the Ohio Power Siting Board's (OPSB) approval of Oak Run Solar -- the largest solar power generation facility approved in Ohio to date. With proposed 800 megawatts of solar generation and a 300 megawatt battery energy storage system, this project takes a huge step toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Ohio. The OEC joined this case as an intervening  more

Sierra Club: "Shut Down America's Most Dangerous Pipeline"
CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 22 -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on March 21, 2024: Advocates rallied alongside Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in downtown Cincinnati today, before her office delivered oral arguments at the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in her lawsuit to shut down and decommission the aging Line 5 crude oil pipeline through the Straits of Mackinac in the Great Lakes. The deteriorating 71-year-old pipeline, owned by Canada oil giant Enbridge, operates  more