The Oil and Gas Land Management Commission will accept bids for drilling under the Keen Wildlife Area in eastern Ohio, but denied a drilling proposal at another wildlife area.
Under the bill, a governor-appointed board would approve permits for energy development and power generation without public hearings. It could waive regulations.
The state found waste could be migrating through fractures in the shale and that the impacts create an “imminent danger” to health and the environment.
The federal government is betting big that creating hydrogen power with renewables is feasible and will help solve the climate crisis. Others are skeptical.
More than $156 million will help residential solar, energy storage and infrastructure upgrades for low-income, disadvantaged and fossil fuel communities.