COLUMBUS, Ohio – A darkish cash nonprofit linked to the pure gasoline trade pushed for laws redefining methane-based gasoline as “inexperienced vitality” months earlier than it was launched and handed in a 36-hour legislative dash, data present.
Gov. Mike DeWine signed laws earlier this month that may make it simpler to drill for oil and gasoline in state parks. That invoice additionally legally redefines pure gasoline as “inexperienced vitality.” Pure gasoline is a fossil gasoline and vital supply of local weather change. The time period “inexperienced vitality” sometimes refers to electrical energy derived from renewable sources just like the solar or the wind.