Twenty-four people provided testimony on draft data center policy proposed by Columbus City Council’s Public Utilities and Sustainability Committee Wednesday night. The community overwhelmingly called for a moratorium and stronger protections, with residents, engineers, and representatives of…

When Ohio legislators passed the historically corrupt House Bill 6 (HB6) in 2019, they forced all Ohioans to pay more on their electric bills to bail out the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation’s (OVEC) two dirty, inefficient, and outdated coal plants in Ohio and Indiana for the next decade. These…

Recently the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the US Government both issued reports acknowledging what people all over the world already knew--urgent action is needed in order to prevent catastrophic climate change. Despite these reports, agencies and…

Shortly after I moved back to Ohio from Oregon in 2016, I learned that Wayne National Forest, Ohio's only national forest, was under threat from the gas and oil industry. After learning more about what was happening, visiting the area, and meeting some locals who will be directly impacted, I felt…