Ohio State Parks Are Under Threat: Why Fracking Must Be Stopped
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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
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
Climate change, extreme weather and insurance companies
By George Banziger “We are homeowners whose entire neighborhoods have been destroyed by fires and we’re fighting our insurance companies while continuing... Read More
Ohio fracking and poor waste management threaten our health, drinking water — and democracy
By Melinda Zemper The chicks from Ohio’s fossil fuels-based energy policy have grown up quickly and are coming home to roost. In... Read More
Save Ohio Parks offers community presentations on the facts about fracking
Whatever you think you know about the relationship between gas and oil fracking and increased cancers, contaminated air, water and soil, and... Read More
Fracking Ohio state parks should not fund tax cuts for the rich
During the lame duck session of 2022, the Ohio legislature passed HB 507, a bill ostensibly about the sale of baby chicks,... Read More