Former top Ohio utility regulator was involved with writing tainted nuclear bill, emails show

The Davis-Besse nuclear plant

The Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, seen in a file photo, is one of the two Ohio nuclear plants subsidized through House Bill 6. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane, File)AP

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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- While serving as Ohio’s top utilities regulator, former Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Chairman Sam Randazzo worked to amend a controversial nuclear bailout bill to hurt renewable energy projects while helping a former client that had just lost a major court case, recently released emails show.

Records released by the Ohio House last month show Randazzo in emails to House staff suggested wording revisions to an early version of House Bill 6, which now is at the center of a federal corruption probe, along with other minor later changes to the bill language.

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