Save Ohio Parks raises serious questions about Steubenville plan to frack historic park
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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
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
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
Action Needed: Recent Nominations put Piedmont Lake in danger.
Two new fracking nominations – 26-DNR-0004 and 26-DNR-0005 – will open another 1,600 acres of Egypt Valley Wildlife Area to oil and gas extraction. These nominations... 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