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Senator reintroduces bill to let natural-gas suppliers offer voluntary carbon offsets
Summary
Chair Wilkin introduced Senate Bill 151 to let natural-gas suppliers voluntarily offer carbon offsets to customers; the sponsor said the program would be optional and regulated by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. Committee members asked whether offsets could be limited to projects in Ohio.
Chair Wilkin offered sponsor testimony on Senate Bill 151 during the Senate Public Utilities Committee, saying the bill would permit natural-gas suppliers to offer voluntary carbon offsets to their customers.
"Carbon offsets represent 1 ton of greenhouse gas removed from the atmosphere by any method of mitigation," the sponsor said, citing examples such as planting trees and capturing…
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