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2A WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2018 USA TODAY NETWORK Vol. 150 No. 156 2018 The News Herald 1800 E. State Suite Fremont, OH 43420 Customer service: (877) 424-0218, M-F, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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and implementing market rules that appropriately compensate fuel-se- cure baseload generating plants is a logical way of addressing this issue and (the) Feder- al Energy Regulatory action must be immediately to prevent ad- ditional plant Stahl wrote. As one of the FERC members to rule on proposal, Chatterjee said the com- mission had previously stressed its prefer- ence for market-based mechanisms as a means to ensure just and reasonable rates. 419-334-1046 Twitter: Neil Waggoner, Campaign Representative for Sierra Beyond Coal campaign in Ohio, said FERC made the right decision. does not make sense to force electric customers to pay more to bail out old, dirty, uneconomic coal and nuclear Wag- goner said in a statement. are all too familiar with the sort of bailout scheme the Department of Energy was trying to push with the NOPR of Proposed For years, Ohio elec- tric customers have steadfastly opposed similar state attempts at a utility bailout based on the same sort of non-factual argu- ments.

this likely be the last attempt to force Ohioans to pay more for dirty, out- dated, expensive energy, the economics of these plants are not going to improve, and we will continue to back against these dirty energy Stahl said Ottawa and Lake County cials stressed to Chatterjee in their Novem- ber visit the of keeping zero-carbon energy plants such as Davis-Besse and Perry open. The commissioner submitted letters to order and determine its next steps. future of competitive generating facilities remains challenged. Baseload coal and nuclear plants have long played an invaluable role in a well-func- tioning electric grid, yet the markets do not adequately compensate these assets. With- out timely action, more of these facilities will close prematurely, jeopardizing the ability to provide clean, reliable and power to customers while harming economies across the Young said an email.

Grant said the FERC response was obvi- ously unsettling to local hopeful of federal assistance. She said that FERC issued a new proceed- ing that requests energy transporters and transmission grid controllers to provide data on grid resiliency in the next 60 days, fol- lowed by a 30-day comment period. interpretation of the announcement is the issuance of a new proceeding is to help FERC better understand the many resiliency dynamics existing in the grid and what, if any, additional guardrails the Commission needs to implement. There will be more to come on Grant said. She said she was still optimistic that Fir- stEnergy could get some government help.

am hopeful there is opportunity for state federal relief to be implemented in Grant said. will take continued dialogue with legislators, regulators and stakeholders something and many oth- ers, have been heavily engaged in since No- vember With the Ohio legislature coming back from the holidays, Grant said she expects the issue to be on the agenda, but would not speculate on any outcomes. Perry formally proposed in September that the FERC take swift action to address threats to the electrical grid resilien- cy. The secretary urged the commission to is- sue a rule requiring its organized mar- kets to develop and implement reforms that would maintain the reliability and resiliency of the grid. board was initially supposed to rule in December on pro- posal, but was granted a 30-day extension.

Davis-Besse Continued from Page 1A The future of the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station and its 700 employees is still up in the air as FirstEnergy reviews options to sell, close or continue operating the 40-year-old plant. FILE would change the law and let the agency de- stroy them. Democratic Rep. Tana Senn of Bellevue is sponsoring such a bill. know many of the police chiefs in my district chose not to sell but rather to destroy, and in their own words, so we can sleep at Senn told a legislative committee.

The National Association opposes the plan. police chiefs maybe could sleep bet- ter if they went out and apprehended the criminals behind the guns and worry about destroying perfectly legal that are no more easy to purchase than a brand-new at a NRA spokesman Tom Kwieciak said. Tragedies involving police-sold guns have happened throughout the U.S. In 2010, a mentally ill man ambushed and wounded two Pentagon police with a handgun sold by Memphis, Tennessee, po- lice. Also that year, a Las Vegas court securi- ty was killed by a man with a shotgun sold by a Memphis-area And in 2015, an unstable man walked into City Hall in New Hope, Minnesota, and wounded two with a shotgun sold by the Du- luth Police Department.

The department has since stopped selling guns and now destroys them. The weapons sold back to the public in Washington include Colt, Glock and Ruger pistols, 12-gauge shotguns, and assault weapons such as AR-15 and SKS All such sales are handled through fed- erally licensed dealers, including auction houses, pawnshops and sporting goods stores. Before buyers can take their guns home, they must pass an FBI back- ground check. On a recent Friday night, owner John West of Auction House in Roches- ter, Washington, about 80 miles south of Se- attle, launched into his bid-calling to a packed room, selling necklaces and coins. Before he up the police- gun for sale, he had a warning.

higher. want to be the agency that sold the gun to somebody who uses it in another said Capt. Schneider of the Yaki- ma Police Department, which sold guns until about a decade ago but now melts them down. Similarly, the International Association of Chiefs of Police says guns should be destroyed because putting them back in circulation the availability of arms which could be used again to kill or in- jure additional police and Also, federal agencies must destroy seized unless they are needed as evidence or being used by the agency. On the other side of the debate, some law enforcement say the selling of guns raises money to purchase equipment, and if the practice were aban- doned, people would just buy weapons somewhere else.

In fact, a growing number of states from Arizona to North Carolina are passing laws prohibiting agencies from de- stroying guns. guns are going to be out said Will Reichardt of Skagit County, Washington. I destroy them all, just helping Remington or bottom Phyllis Holcomb, a manager with the Ken- tucky State Police, which oversees Kentuck- gun sale program, said such transactions have helped equip with body armor and other gear. The debate is playing out in Washington state, where the State Patrol is pushing back against a state law that requires the agency to auction or trade most guns. The State Patrol sold any weapons since 2014 and at one point accumulated more than 400 in the hope the Legislature he told the crowd, you cannot possess a and you pass a background check, just even bother There is no master list of guns sold by po- lice, so compiling one for Washington state involved dozens of public-records requests to individual agencies.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives keeps track of crime guns but refused to re- lease information from its database, so the AP collected databases from individual agencies and compared them with the sold guns. One of the guns that ended up in a new police report was a handgun sold by Longview police in 2016. In 2017, a drun- ken Jesse Brown and a friend armed them- selves with the gun and two other weapons, went to a house and threatened two young men they believed were selling drugs, police said. Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha said that while some resold guns may be used in new crimes, going to get a weapon, going to get a Selling guns generates money used for drug investiga- tions, he said. The weapon Juhl used to kill himself was in a batch the State Patrol traded in 2012.

It was purchased by a man in Yakima, who sold it to someone else, who then sold it on Craig- slist. girlfriend told police where he acquired it. Juhl, 24, was not legally permitted to own or possess a gun. He received a bad-conduct discharge from the Army after serving time in prison for using the drug ecstasy and going AWOL for about two months. An Army spokesman said criminal history was sent to the Criminal Justice Informa- tion System, but the police detective who handled suicide said he checked the database but convic- tions.

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