Ohio bill to spur fracking in state parks and forests heads to governor’s office

Julie GrantDecember 16, 2022

The bill has raised fears that Ohio agencies will be required to lease state-owned parks, forests, preserves and universities to fracking.

ConservationEnergyPoliticsYour Environment Update

Ohio groups petition U.S. EPA to revoke state’s regulation of oil and gas waste disposal wells 

Julie GrantOctober 14, 2022

The groups say Ohio's failure to enforce regulations is endangering drinking water and burdening low-income Appalachian communities.

EnergyEnvironmental Justice

Group finds PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals used in Ohio oil and gas wells

Julie GrantSeptember 30, 2022

Physicians for Social Responsibility found the oil and gas industry in Ohio used PFAS, known as “forever” chemicals, 101 times since 2013.

EnergyHealth

Q&A: Federal pipeline regulator fines Energy Transfer $40M, blamed “corporate culture” for large spill into Ohio wetland

Reid FrazierApril 1, 2022

Four years after a massive spill of drilling mud polluted a wetland, FERC issued a $40 million fine. But is it too little, too late?

EnergyPollutionWaterYour Environment Update

Ohio regulators renew wastewater permit for proposed ethane cracker in Ohio

Julie GrantApril 1, 2022

The company proposing a second ethane cracker for the region hasn't made a final decision to move forward.

EnergyThe Coming Chemical Boom

Environmental groups sue to invalidate permits for ethane storage project

Julie GrantOctober 29, 2021

The groups say the Ohio Department of Natural Resources did not do a detailed enough analysis on the project's impacts to drinking water.

EnergyThe Coming Chemical Boom

Appalachian Communities Talk Gas, Plastics, and Inequity with Federal Energy Officials 

Julie GrantAugust 25, 2021

The Department of Energy collected perspectives from Ohio Valley communities impacted by the ethane and petrochemical industries to include in a report to Congress.

EnergyEnvironmental JusticeThe Coming Chemical Boom

Why Frack Wastewater Injected Underground Doesn’t Always Stay There

Julie GrantMarch 19, 2021

One geologist says the landscape is like "Swiss cheese" from a century of oil and gas drilling. All those wells could allow fracking wastewater to travel back to the surface.

EnergyPollution

Gas Industry Hasn’t Delivered on Its Economic Promise to Communities, Report Says

Jon HurdleFebruary 16, 2021

The industry rejects the report, calling natural gas extraction a 'game-changer for local economies.'

EconomyEnergyYour Environment Update

More Ohioans Want Some Say in Siting Drilling Waste Injection Wells

Julie GrantFebruary 12, 2021

Residents near injection wells in Ohio fear pollution, noise and earthquakes. Local leaders want some say in where these wells are located.

EnergyWho's Listening