In re Application of Duke Energy Ohio, Inc. (Slip Opinion)

{¶ 1} Appellants, the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel, the Ohio Manufacturers’ Association, Ohio Partners for Affordable Energy, and the Kroger Company, appeal an order of the Public Utilities Commission that authorized intervening appellee Duke Energy Ohio, Inc., to recover costs associated with the environmental remediation of two manufactured-gas-plant (“MGP”) sites near downtown Cincinnati.

{¶ 2} Appellants raise five propositions of law, but we have already resolved proposition Nos. 4 and 5. Of the three that remain, none warrants reversal. Therefore, we affirm the commission’s…