To keep drilling, Big Oil needs permission to dump treated fracking wastewater into rivers and onto cropland. We don’t have to give it to them.

Highly toxic wastewater from America’s fracking boom is buried in deep underground wells. But in some places that toxic waste is bubbling upwards -- threatening local drinking water. How Marietta, Ohi...

The lawsuit alleges the Beckjord property and the unlined coal ash ponds are endangering public health and the environment.

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — A pipe at the former Chillicothe paper mill continues to send millions of gallons of treated industrial wastewater into Paint Creek every day.

The Trump administration’s latest deal to abandon an offshore wind project and redirect investment into fossil fuels stands to deliver a windfall to one of President Donald Trump’s major donors.

Residents of Cadiz in eastern Ohio have been dealing with water issues over the last year. Recently, the Ohio EPA found several violations at the village's water treatment plant.

The court ruled 6-1 that the Michigan Public Service Commission’s review of a key permit for the petroleum pipeline tunnel was overly narrow, failing to consider whether the tunnel will harm public tr...

The agency dropped a proposal that would have made it easier for data centers to discharge their wastewater into fresh water.

The gas would likely come from fracking Ohio's state parks and wildlife areas.

A new study calculates the risk to clean water if the Trump Administration repeals the Roadless Rule.

Southeastern Ohio has a serious problem underground with fracking waste injection. Now that problem is reaching the surface and threatening our drinking water, writes Marietta College petroleum geolog...

Residents of Dayton urged the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to reject a proposed three-year increase in electric distribution rates by AES Ohio, citing rising costs despite reduced power usage and concerns about a potential BlackRock-led acquisition of AES Corp.

Ohio data centers have racked up millions of dollars in property tax breaks. And local officials are still making deals.

An eastern Ohio city has agreed to lease the city’s mineral rights to the oil and gas industry, including two local parks.

Ohio’s mail-in ballot grace period began as an effort to help all Ohioans vote and avoid embarrassing catastrophes like 2004, but axing it has become a tool for disenfranchising Democrats and concentr...

One year since the Big, Ugly Bill was passed and what are moms still waiting for? Lower costs, accessible health care, and relief from the harms caused by Trump’s Big, Ugly Bill. Last July 4th, Republ...

Are we living in the “Silicon Heartland”? Our region is attracting major tech development and we’re one of the top hubs for data center expansion nationwide. Now, pushback from communities is causing ...

Ohio’s new business of leasing about 22,000 acres of its lands to the oil and gas industry has grown into a $314 million gusher.

The study used more than 40 years of data to map fluctuating PFAS levels across species in the region's food chain.

Are we living in the “Silicon Heartland”? Our region is attracting major tech development and we’re one of the top hubs for data center expansion nationwide. Now, pushback from communities is causing ...

State officials are scheduled to vote Monday to open or select a winning bid on about 23,000 acres of publicly owned wildlife preserves.

Alaska LNG is an instructive failure in political imagination.

Alaska LNG is an instructive failure in political imagination.

Intense heat is on the way for more than half of the country, just in time for the second week of summer.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has issued a second Notice of Violation to Cheyenne Resources Ohio, LLC, alleging the company failed to submit months of required discharge monitoring reports ...

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Portage County communities are looking into moratoriums to limit data centers, after opponents cited concerns about their impact on the environment.