As more than a billion gallons of oil and gas wastewater flood beneath Ohio, pollution concerns reach its heated governor's ...

Monroe Lake Wildlife Area, a popular hunting and fishing destination in eastern Ohio, could become the latest public-land site pursued for drilling, according to Signal Ohio. The ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Ohioans who love their state parks and public lands need to tell the Oil and Gas Land Management Commission (OGLMC) to stop fracking them. Over 8236 acres ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Whatever you think you know about the relationship between gas and oil fracking and increased cancers, contaminated air, water and soil, and the ...

Ohio is playing a dangerous game with some of its most beautiful public lands, say environmentalists and hosts of the Today in Ohio podcast. The new is that Ohio has opened 9,000 new acres of state ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may cause an increase of radon gas in nearby homes. Studies on fracking and radon have produced conflicting results, leading to calls for more research. Austin ...

Whitney Hammer of Columbus (center) with activists from Save Ohio Parks in front of the corporate office headquarters of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company to protest fracking under State Parks and ...

Oil and gas drilling is now allowed on more Ohio wildlife areas. The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission approved several wildlife areas and other public lands for hydraulic fracturing. Also ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio— As Ohio voters prepare to choose their next governor, few issues present a clearer contrast among the candidates than whether oil and gas companies should be allowed to frack beneath ...

People from several southeastern Ohio counties gathered in Columbus earlier this month, holding signs that read things like “No Radioactive Waste” to try to get lawmakers to pay attention to what they ...

MARIETTA, Ohio (WCMH) — The federal government sold oil rights in Ohio’s only national forest for $11 million this month, opening it up to fracking. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is the process ...