Ohio Natural Gas

We’re reporting on the natural gas industry in Ohio, as it brings not only jobs, but more gas wells, pipelines and injection wells to the region.

Activists holding signs gathered at Salt Fork State Park

Activists rally to prevent fracking under Ohio’s largest state park

Julie Grant·July 7, 2023

They’re fighting against a new law that requires state agencies to consider proposals to drill for oil and gas under Ohio’s public lands.

Conservation Energy Your Environment Update

Environmental groups sue to stop fracking in Ohio State parks

Julie Grant·April 14, 2023

Groups are suing to halt a new law that went into effect on April 7 that would accelerate gas drilling under state-owned lands, like parks, until new rules are in place.

Conservation Energy Your Environment Update

Ohio bill to spur fracking in state parks and forests heads to governor’s office

Julie Grant·December 16, 2022

The bill has raised fears that Ohio agencies will be required to lease state-owned parks, forests, preserves and universities to fracking.

Conservation Energy Politics Your Environment Update

Ohio groups petition U.S. EPA to revoke state’s regulation of oil and gas waste disposal wells

Julie Grant·October 14, 2022

The groups say Ohio's failure to enforce regulations is endangering drinking water and burdening low-income Appalachian communities.

Energy Environmental Justice

Group finds PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals used in Ohio oil and gas wells

Julie Grant·September 30, 2022

Physicians for Social Responsibility found the oil and gas industry in Ohio used PFAS, known as “forever” chemicals, 101 times since 2013.

Energy Health

Q&A: Federal pipeline regulator fines Energy Transfer $40M, blamed “corporate culture” for large spill into Ohio wetland

Reid Frazier·April 1, 2022

Four years after a massive spill of drilling mud polluted a wetland, FERC issued a $40 million fine. But is it too little, too late?

Energy Pollution Water Your Environment Update

Ohio regulators renew wastewater permit for proposed ethane cracker in Ohio

Julie Grant·April 1, 2022

The company proposing a second ethane cracker for the region hasn't made a final decision to move forward.

Energy The Coming Chemical Boom

Environmental groups sue to invalidate permits for ethane storage project

Julie Grant·October 29, 2021

The groups say the Ohio Department of Natural Resources did not do a detailed enough analysis on the project's impacts to drinking water.

Energy The Coming Chemical Boom

Appalachian Communities Talk Gas, Plastics, and Inequity with Federal Energy Officials

Julie Grant·August 25, 2021

The Department of Energy collected perspectives from Ohio Valley communities impacted by the ethane and petrochemical industries to include in a report to Congress.

Energy Environmental Justice The Coming Chemical Boom

Why Frack Wastewater Injected Underground Doesn’t Always Stay There

Julie Grant·March 19, 2021

One geologist says the landscape is like "Swiss cheese" from a century of oil and gas drilling. All those wells could allow fracking wastewater to travel back to the surface.

Energy Pollution

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