Fracking is toxic. We can’t lose more land to it
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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
Embracing real clean energy
By Randi Pokladnik Unlike our neighboring states of Michigan and Illinois, Ohio’s politicians have not embraced the economic and environmental benefits that... Read More
Ohio’s data centers will impact many Ohioans
By Randi Pokladnik Ohio is witnessing the construction of an unprecedented amount of data centers in the state. Columbus is ranked the 10th largest data center... Read More
Tell the Commission: Fracking hands off Jockey Hollow Wildlife Area
An unnamed oil and gas company has submitted a “nomination” to the Oil and Gas Land Management Commission to frack 1,460 acres... Read More