Senator Brown: Fixing a Misguided Department of Energy Regulation to Save Ohio Steel Jobs
April 16, 2024
April 16, 2024
WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following newsletter on on April 15, 2024:
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For the last year, we've been fighting to stop a proposed Department of Energy rule that would have put the supply chain for transformers at risk and threatened hundreds of Ohio steel jobs.
Transformers, the metal boxes on powerline poles, are crucial to our electric grid. And when storms knock out transformers and power lines, it takes too many c . . .
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For the last year, we've been fighting to stop a proposed Department of Energy rule that would have put the supply chain for transformers at risk and threatened hundreds of Ohio steel jobs.
Transformers, the metal boxes on powerline poles, are crucial to our electric grid. And when storms knock out transformers and power lines, it takes too many c . . .