Save Ohio Parks testimony for Select Committee on Data Centers
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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
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
Expendable Ohio
By Randy Cunningham While researching my book Where We Live, on grassroots environmental organizing, I broke down the question of the environment into an... Read More
It’s not Groundhog Day. It’s a total takeover of Egypt Valley
Didn’t we just do this? Seriously. Last week, the Oil and Gas Land Management Commission approved fracking across thousands of acres in... Read More
Tell your House Rep: Don’t speed up fracking our state parks!
On March 18, the House Natural Resources Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 219, which purports to revise the law on oil... Read More
Two bad bills would speed up fracking of Ohio parks, squash renewable energy
By Cathy Cowan Becker The Ohio legislature has a long history of kowtowing to oil and gas interests — and no pair... Read More
Great Ohio Climate March: Coming soon to trails and roads near you
The Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius may be dead, but the opportunity for those who care... Read More
Public comments needed to stop fracking 8,749 acres at Salt Fork, Egypt Valley
Comments needed by March 7 for 6,639 acres in Egypt Valley Wildlife Area; March 15 for 513 acres under Salt Fork State... Read More