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An insane amount of public land is up for fracking on Monday

We have just learned that the Oil and Gas Land Management Commission will meet on Monday, June 29, to decide on a long list of nominations and bids to frack Ohio public land.We’re not going to lie … they are likely to approve most if not all the nominations and award most if not all the bids.That’s…
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I told Ohio lawmakers that a new law would put gas plants in residential areas. Now it’s happening in Hilliard.

This article first appeared in the Ohio Capital JournalLast March during the hearings on Ohio House Bill 15, I was the only representative of an environmental organization in Ohio to testify against it.The reason? It gave the Ohio Power Siting Board just 45 days to consider a major utility facility…
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Save Ohio Parks offers community presentations on the facts about fracking

Haga clic aquí para españolWhatever you think you know about the relationship between gas and oil fracking and increased cancers, contaminated air, water and soil, and the acceleration of climate change, chances are you don’t know enough, say environmental advocates at Save Ohio Parks.The…
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Save Ohio Parks statement on Gov. Mike DeWine signing House Bill 308

Once again, the Ohio legislature has gifted the oil and gas industry with an amendment stuffed into an unrelated bill during its last committee hearing of the lame duck session with no public notice or chance to comment -- this time extending leases to frack our public lands up to eight long years…