Another clash may be coming between Republican state lawmakers and Gov. John Kasich. It鈥檚 over a bill on nuclear power plants, but the issue may be more about money.

At the opening of a new natural gas plant this week in Toledo, Kasich said he can鈥檛 support a bill that would allow FirstEnergy to charge its customers more to subsidize its two aging nuclear plants.

鈥淓conomic decisions have to be made, and I just think they鈥檙e going to have to work their way through this themselves,鈥� he said.

The bill鈥檚 sponsor, Republican Sen. John Eklund of the Chardon area, says nuclear is needed in a diverse energy portfolio, which he says Kasich has supported. And he says lawmakers make many decisions to preserve important things, and they鈥檙e not called bailouts.

鈥淭his just happens to be another one," Eklund says. "It鈥檚 no more of a bailout than so many of the other things that we do.鈥�

Eklund says he hasn鈥檛 spoken to Kasich about the bill but wants to move it forward, though the bill stalled before summer recess.