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Coal plants helped cause bribery scandal. Now FirstEnergy might be buying one back

BY: - March 21, 2023

Akron-based FirstEnergy might be poised to increase its coal-fired generation capacity by 40% with the purchase of a West Virginia plant it owned less than four years ago and spun off as part of a massive racketeering scandal. The reason why the company paid out more than $60 million between 2017 and 2020 to force […]