Enough is enough: Salt Fork up for fracking after last year’s blast
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After a massive explosion about five miles away from Salt Fork State Park last year, an unknown oil and gas company has nominated 513 acres... Read More
Nuclear power and natural gas aren’t ‘clean energy.’
Creating a law declaring something is true doesn’t mean that it is. Take what lawmakers are trying to do with the word... Read More
Two new nominations. One imminent threat to Ohio wildlife.
You may remember our previous emails about an unnamed oil and gas company that applied to frack Egypt Valley Wildlife Area. Well,... Read More
Fracking is toxic. We can’t lose more land to it
By Randi Pokladnik In 2024, 62 acres of the Leesville Wildlife Area in Carroll County were opened up for fracking by Ohio’s Oil and... Read More
Ohio State Parks Are Under Threat: Why Fracking Must Be Stopped
By Susan Busch Most Ohioans aren’t aware that our Republican legislature opened our state parks and wildlife areas for fracking in 2023.... Read More
Save Ohio Parks, environmental advocates warn against expanding frack leases under state parks, public lands
Impaired health from methane emissions, water contamination are concerns COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 13, 2026 — Environmental advocates and Ohioans converged in Columbus on Monday to... Read More
Speak up for state parks and public lands
On Monday, January 12, at 1 p.m., Ohio’s Oil and Gas Land Management Commission — the governor-appointed body in charge of decisions about... Read More
Movie on beauty of state parks fails to mention fracking
By Melinda Zemper Save Ohio Parks volunteers across Ohio are distributing literature outside theaters and museums to educate Ohioans that pristine state... Read More
Tell Ohio EPA: No general wastewater permits for Ohio data centers
Last week we learned that the Ohio EPA is taking comments on a Draft Wastewater General Permit for Data Centers. In plain... Read More
I told Ohio lawmakers that a new law would put gas plants in residential areas. Now it’s happening.
By Cathy Cowan Becker Last March during the hearings on Ohio House Bill 15, I was the only representative of an environmental... Read More