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There are only a few weeks until new charges are set to hit all Ohio electric bills, and there’s still no path to repeal House Bill 6, the disputed law that created those charges. Now the state's attorney general has filed a second lawsuit involving collection of that money.

The suit from Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost seeks to immediately stop the collection of on all Ohio electric bills. Those charges are set to start Jan. 1 and total $150 million a year statewide – with that money bound for Ohio’s two nuclear power plants, as well as coal and solar subsidies.

sought to allow the money to be collected but to be held from going to Energy Harbor, the former FirstEnergy subsidiary that now owns the nuclear plants. FirstEnergy said at the time and that the case had no merit.

There are that would repeal the bailout. Three would seek a full repeal, while the fourth would eliminate the ratepayer subsidies bound for nuclear, coal, and solar plants but retain the cuts HB6 makes to renewable energy standards and the elimination of the energy efficiency standards.

Federal investigators say HB6 became law as part of , four other people and a utility .

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