Ohio has nation’s best park system. We’re angry fracking will change that
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Our parks belong to all of us. We will keep showing up for Ohio. We hope the commissioners will at some point... Read More
Submit a comment to protest fracking 41 parcels of Wayne National Forest
Fracking in the Wayne National Forest is back — again. And Ohio’s only national forest could use your help. Last time we... Read More
Save Ohio Parks raises serious questions about Steubenville plan to frack historic park
Recently Save Ohio Parks was contacted regarding a plan by the mayor and city council of Steubenville to lease 19 parcels totaling... Read More
DeWine says he loves Ohio state parks, so what will he do with Senate Bill 219?
By Cathy Cowan Becker This month, Gov. Mike DeWine officially proclaimed June 1 to June 7 as Ohio State Parks Week, celebrating the natural... Read More
Ohio officials ignore scientific facts to allow our public air, land, and water to be abused
By Randi Pokladnik Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish physics professor, is best known for his development of the pH scale for acids and... Read More
Save Ohio Parks testimony for Select Committee on Data Centers
Testimony by Cathy Cowan BeckerBoard President, Save Ohio ParksJune 1, 2026 Co-Chair Holmes, Co-Chair Chavez, and members of the Select Committee on... Read More
Save Ohio Parks research says AI data center buildout can work — if it runs on renewable energy
Statewide nonprofit has studied oil and gas fracking’s health, environmental and public lands impacts since 2023 Ohio has a unique opportunity to... Read More
Time to step up on injection wells
By George Banziger Last fall I received a phone call from someone in Parkersburg who reported that she witnessed brine waste (production... Read More
Data centers killing Ohio’s beloved parks before our very eyes
If local officials accept data centers, rural Appalachia, our state parks and public lands and even our villages, towns and suburbs will... Read More
Public lands need protection
By Randi Pokladnik For the first eight years of my life, our family lived in a small rented house in Steubenville, Ohio.... Read More