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Environmental group opposes codifying PUCO stipulation test in SB103
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Karen Nordstrom of the Ohio Environmental Council Action Fund told the Senate Public Utilities Committee that a provision in SB103 that would codify a three-pronged PUCO stipulation test risks rubber-stamping settlements and shifts the burden to parties opposing settlements.
Karen Nordstrom, a clean energy attorney with the Ohio Environmental Council Action Fund, told the Senate Public Utilities Committee that a provision of Senate Bill 103 that would codify a three-pronged test for stipulations at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio should be removed. "While SB103 is fundamentally about rate reform, the OAC Action Fund is here today to oppose the portion of section 4,903.3 which codifies a 3 pronged test for stipulations or settlements at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio," she said.
Nordstrom read the three prongs aloud and said they are applied in ways that provide "little substantive analysis…
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