The report from Environmental Entrepreneurs—or E2—shows that Ohio companies contributed nearly 800 new jobs in the clean energy sector. That includes everything from erecting solar panels, operating wind turbines, and helping people reduce their energy use.

While 800 is only a sliver of the country’s new clean energy jobs, Bob Keefe, a spokesperson with E2, says their data is largely anecdotal.

“We scour announcements of new jobs that are related to clean energy or clean transportation,” Keefe says.

“It’s from company press releases announcing new projects and how many jobs they’re hiring and they’re from lawmakers offices that go to the ribbon cuttings that open these plants.”

Bill Spratley is the executive director of Green Energy Ohio, a non-profit that promotes renewable energy. Spratley says his group held a solar energy conference in Cleveland five years ago, and since then, he’s seen Ohio manufacturers step up.

“We have machine shops all over the state that are making parts that go into wind turbines. We have solar factories up in the Toledo area. There’s a whole supply chain.”

Spratley says all of those companies may not be reflected in E2’s figures.

Plus, E2’s clean energy report does not include companies in the natural gas industry that has blossomed in Ohio over the past year.

Much of the attention has been focused on the parts of the bill that include new regulations on the oil and gas industry and the process called fracking. But Gov. Kasich signed the bill at Echogen, a company that helps other companies take waste heat from industrial processes and reuse it.

The bill defines that now as renewable energy, a move some environmentalists objected to, saying it would be ease pressure for companies to convert to more clean energy like wind and solar.

But Kasich says some environmentalists are going too far.

“We have the tougher regulation in high press ure pipelines and gathering lines than the federal government,” the Governor said at a signing ceremony. “We have the most extensive fracking liquid disclosure in the country. And then, on top of it, we’ve got waste heat.

“Now we’ve got resistance to co-generation which would also help to meet those standards. And you know I made the statement that sometimes those environmental groups are more interested in their subsidies than they are in the environment. Not always, but sometimes.”

Kasich accused environmentalists of “continuing to move the goalposts” to get more stringent regulations.

But environmentalists say the bill was weakened by loopholes pushed by the oil and gas industry, including exemptions of certain chemical compounds from public disclosure and limiting who can sue if fracking goes wrong.

Now, as part of a major energy policy package, Ohio legislators are considering tinkering with the definition of renewable energy. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports that’s worrying environmental groups. Click the play button above to hear reaction from both supporters and critics of the proposal.