Tina Gerhardt is an environmental journalist. She covers international climate negotiations, energy policy, sea level rise and related direct actions. Her work has been published by Grist, The Progressive, The Nation Sierra and the Washington Monthly.
Union officials told the bargaining chair the walkout may be the longest in Ohio public sector history, a claim the county's newspaper could not confirm. Commissioners point to an $11 million deficit.
Twenty-three states had approved special rates for the largest power users by May, and Oracle's own credit rating now sits below the threshold Wisconsin regulators set.
The OCC's own decision letter records four commenters raising conflict-of-interest objections involving the president and his family, and the agency placing most of those questions outside the scope of its review.