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Fracking produces a lot of wastewater. Millions of gallons of it are stored under eastern Ohio
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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MARIETTA, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Hydraulic fracturing, particularly on public lands, has spurred protests across Ohio. But a lesser known part of the process — where companies discard the… Read More
An IMAX movie tells Ohio’s environmental comeback story from a burning river to top-ranked state parks
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — When you think IMAX, chances are your mind goes to those immersive documentaries that take you inside volcanoes, deep under oceans, atop mountains or to distant… Read More
Ohio lawmakers are rallying against lower FirstEnergy reliability standards
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A major Ohio electric utility is asking state regulators to loosen its reliability standards, with a hearing scheduled for late February. Lawmakers say FirstEnergy’s request… Read More
Environmental advocates sue Ohio for the rights to enforce clean air rules
By: Adriana Martinez-Smiley | WYSO
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YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (WYSO) — For decades, Ohioans have had multiple tools at their disposal to keep air polluters in check. But Ohio’s budget bill passed over the summer strips… Read More
Ohio landfills take drilling waste, but don’t track or test much of it
By: Julie Grant | The Allegheny Front
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AMSTERDAM, Ohio (The Allegheny Front) — The process of fracking a well brings up gas or oil from deep underground. But it also brings dirt and rocks that could be… Read More
The body of a coal miner has been found in a flooded West Virginia mine, the governor says
By: John Raby | AP
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The body of a coal miner was found early Thursday in a mine that flooded in southern West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said. Machines had been… Read More
An Ohio bill would regulate carbon sequestration projects of major polluters
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — An Ohio bill making its way through the legislature regulates carbon sequestration, or taking and storing CO2 emissions underground to mitigate the effects of climate… Read More
How Athens County is getting ready for future flash floods
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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ATHENS COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Athens County just experienced its driest August on record. Before that, it received historic amounts of rainfall. From January to July, the county… Read More
Energy Department is offering a $1.6 billion loan guarantee to upgrade transmission lines across the Midwest
By: Matthew Daly | AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Energy said Thursday it has finalized a $1.6 billion loan guarantee to a subsidiary of one of the nation’s largest power companies to upgrade… Read More
New regulations were about to impact Ohio steel manufacturers. Then the EPA hit pause
By: Adriana Martinez-Smiley | WYSO
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MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (WYSO) — Middletown resident Donna Ballinger said she can’t leave her windows open. “There’s usually smells — chemical smells, rotten egg smells — that burns your eyes and… Read More
These coal plants lose money. Other states have walked away, but not West Virginia
By: Curtis Tate | WVPB
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CHARLESTION, W.Va. (WVPB) — Inflation has driven up the cost of many basic necessities: food, housing and energy. What Appalachian Power’s 1.1 million customers may not have known is that… Read More
How cuts to H2Ohio could impact the future of wetlands restoration
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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HENRY COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Before northwest Ohio was filled with fields of corn and soybeans, it was covered in slimy mud and standing water. “Northwest Ohio was… Read More
A consumer agency and manufacturers want an audit of $237M in subsidies to Ohio coal plants
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Subsidies for two coal fired power plants put into the 2019 law bailing out the state’s two nuclear plants will end for Ohio ratepayers… Read More
Toxic chemicals contained by the shuttering Chillicothe Pixelle plant could infect the air and groundwater
By: George Shillcock | WOSU
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CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (WOSU) — Chillicothe’s Pixelle paper mill, which is set to close in August, has a secondary function: it helps contain a toxic plume of cancer-causing chemicals underground that were… Read More
Black bears are back. Here’s how the species is recolonizing Ohio
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — A roving black bear made headlines earlier this month for wandering neighborhoods near Dayton and Cincinnati. Sightings in that region are rare, said Katie Dennison,… Read More
The Creek Jam rocks and raises money for watersheds
THE PLAINS, Ohio (WOUB) – For more than 40 years, Jim Miller has been coming to Athens County to play music. Why? “There’s a lot of hippies here,” said Miller… Read More
The climate is changing. What’s at stake for Ohio?
By: Kendall Crawford I Statehouse News Bureau
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Climate change will affect Ohio in a myriad of ways: it could alter farmers’ growing seasons, increase energy bills, change the price tag on food… Read More
Hocking Hills is grappling with the challenges of booming crowds
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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HOCKING COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Hocking Hills sees more than 4 million visitors every year — a number that exploded in recent years. One 2023 study found the… Read More
These Ohio tinkerers are turning trash into treasure
By: Tana Weingartner | WVXU
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LOWER PRICE HILL, Ohio (WVXU) — When the coffee pot stops perking, the vacuum stops sucking, or that lamp no longer turns on, most people either chuck them in the… Read More
Orphan wells pose a threat to groundwater in Ohio
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey recently released research showing where groundwater is most at risk of contamination by orphan wells. Appalachia – including parts… Read More
Ohio communities consider housing solutions after record-breaking year of tornadoes
By: Adriana Martinez-Smiley | WYSO, Isabel Nissley | WVXU, Zaria Johnson | Ideastream Public Media
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LOGAN COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Thursday, March 14, 2024 began as a normal day for many Logan County residents. But bad weather was brewing. Logan County Emergency Management… Read More
Earthquakes in Ohio? It’s more likely than you think
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — At the end of last month, a minor earthquake rattled southeast Ohio’s Noble County. A few days later residents reported another. Then another. By May… Read More
More trees in the Wayne National Forest will be cut after a Trump administration executive order
By: George Shillcock | WOSU
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOSU) — The Trump administration wants to increase timber harvesting in the more than 100 million acres of national forests and is targeting Ohio’s only national forest as… Read More
A Toledo Blade investigation revealed radioactivity in the rural Ohio village of Luckey’s water
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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LUCKEY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — For decades, a massive Cold War-era plant created weapons next to the small northwest Ohio village of Luckey. Residents of the rural community have… Read More
The omnibus energy bill is off to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine after months of hearings
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The legislature sent Gov. Mike DeWine an extensive bill Wednesday that lawmakers and lobbyists have said will prompt new energy generation and otherwise overhaul… Read More
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