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Ohio Consumers Power Alliance
Ohio Consumers Power Alliance
In spring of 2019, Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund joined with thousands of energy consumers and ratepayers from across Ohio to launch Ohio Consumers Power Alliance, a non-partisan, statewide consumer advocacy alliance focused on keeping electricity rates low by diversifying Ohio’s energy portfolio.
The Alliance is committed to providing our members with information about energy policy activity within the legislature, at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, and in their local communities in order to offer Ohioans the opportunities they have been missing to share their thoughts with their elected officials and other decision-makers.
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Rachael is the Executive Director of Ohio Citizen Action and Ohio Consumers Power Alliance: Rachael moved to Cincinnati in 1996 from Clean Water Action in Denver to become Cincinnati area Program Director for Ohio Citizen Action, and has been a leader in working with communities who are affected by toxic chemical pollution. She pioneered successful “good neighbor campaigns” at Cincinnati Specialties, Rohm and Haas, AK Steel, and Sunoco. As coal program organizer, Rachael traveled to communities across Ohio in the successful campaign to prevent AMP from building a new coal plant in Southeast Ohio, and played a key role in calling on Ohio utilities to close their highly-polluting plants. Throughout her years in the organization, Rachael has also played key roles in statewide coordination, including training and supervising new organizers, fundraising and working closely with the field and phone canvass. She currently serves as Executive Director of Ohio Citiz
Editorial: Gov. DeWine, Ohioans need an advocate on PUCO
The Columbus Dispatch
Gov. Mike DeWine has a lot of good reasons to appoint someone to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio who is free of any financial ties to the utility corporations the PUCO is charged with regulating. The most important reason is because that’s what Ohioans deserve: commission members who can be expected to look out for their interests rather than those of the utilities.
We sympathize with those consumer advocates who are unhappy that DeWine on Jan. 20 rejected all four candidates proposed for a PUCO opening by the agency s Nominating Council. The Ohio Consumers’ Counsel, the left-leaning policy group ProgressOhio, and the Ohio Consumer Power Alliance all said that two of the candidates on the rejected list would have been good choices.