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A pair of Republican Senators are sponsoring the bill saying they want to allow communities to hold a referendum on wind or solar energy projects, giving voters more of a voice in the process.
But Dan Sawmiller, Ohio energy policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, says there's already a rigorous process in place through the Ohio Power Siting Board that includes ample time for public input.
"If there is a sort of double regulatory scheme that's designed in a way that makes it easy to kill these projects, all the way up to the eleventh hour, it just makes Ohio a state that's not friendly to that kind of investment," Sawmiller says.