Ohio weatherization program one of nation’s best

Despite the program’s success, it reaches too few eligible families, according to Policy Matters researchers. In 2012, less than 5,750 homes were weatherized, comprising 1.2 percent of the 460,000 households seeking emergency assistance that year.

The report said that eliminating Ohio’s Clean Energy Standard would result in a $300 million loss of investments in weatherization over the next 10 years. The standard currently is frozen for two years for state evaluation.