Tristan Rader News

COLUMBUS — State Representatives Tristan Rader (D–Cleveland) and David Thomas (R–Jefferson) today introduced the Ohio Power Outage Relief Act, bipartisan legislation requiring electric distribution utilities to compensate customers for qualifying prolonged and repeated power outages and prohibiting utilities from passing those costs back to customers.

COLUMBUS — Representative Tristan Rader (D–Lakewood) has released the following statement on the recently released performance audit of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio that sought to examine how the agency manages their resources and responsibilities.

COLUMBUS — State Rep. Tristan Rader (D–Cleveland) today joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers to introduce legislation banning automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), including Flock cameras, throughout Ohio.

COLUMBUS — Representative Tristan Rader (D–Lakewood) today was joined by Reps. Levi Dean (R-Xenia), Darnell Brewer (D-Cleveland), and Justin Pizzulli (R-Scioto County) in a bipartisan effort to urge the Ohio Department of Transportation to stop approving automated license plate readers in state highway rights-of-way and review permits already issued for the surveillance devices.

COLUMBUS — State Rep. Tristan Rader (D- Cleveland) reacted to the Federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM)’s recent announcement that starting on September 15th companies will be able to bid on oil and gas leases on 2,840 acres of land in the Wayne National Forest.

COLUMBUS — Representative Tristan Rader (D–Lakewood) today sent a letter to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) urging them to hold public hearings on Blackrock’s acquisition of AES Corporation, a Dayton-area utility.

COLUMBUS — Representative Tristan Rader (D–Lakewood) today welcomed the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to not finalize a proposed statewide general wastewater discharge permit for data centers, opting instead to require individual National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits for facilities that discharge wastewater.

COLUMBUS – State Reps. Chris Glassburn (D-North Olmsted) and Sean Brennan (D-Parma) today announced the introduction of House Joint Resolution (HJR) 8 to place a ballot initiative granting 16-year-olds the right to vote in Ohio elections before voters in the November election.  

Environmental activists, conventional oil and gas producers and at least one member of the Ohio House called on the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) on Tuesday to launch a long-term investigation into the effects of underground migration of waste brine from injection oil and gas wells in Southeast Ohio into conventional oil and gas wells as well as the region’s water supply.

COLUMBUS — State Rep. Tristan Rader (D-Lakewood) today applauded the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio's (PUCO) decision rejecting FirstEnergy's attempt to weaken electric reliability standards for customers served by Cleveland Electric Illuminating, Ohio Edison, and Toledo Edison.