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Ohio companies go green by killing trees — and state regulators aren’t...

Cross-posted from The Cleveland Scene by Maude L. Campbell When FirstEnergy announced in the spring of 2009 that it would no longer burn coal at its R.E. Burger power plant, the news was met with a...

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FirstEnergy Fights Environmental Group’s Supreme Court Appeal

Cross-posted from Scene & Heard Posted by Maude L. Campbell The battle is heating up over what Ohio utility companies can use as renewable To read the rest of this article please click here: Scene...

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BIOMESS: Burning Trees for Energy!

Cross-posted from the Buckeye Forest Council Coal fired power plants want to burn trees as “biomass” on a huge scale to make energy and call it “green and clean.” The Ohio Public Utilities Commission...

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Confirmed: Fracking Caused Ohio Earthquakes

Cross-Posted from CommonDreams, March 9, 2012 The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) has confirmed that a series of earthquakes in the state were caused by injecting leftover fracking fluids,...

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Ohio: Fracking brine gas-well waste full of radium

Spencer Hunt, September 3, 2012. Source: The Columbus Dispatch Study suggests water trucked to Ohio from Pa. might be radioactive Millions of barrels of wastewater trucked into Ohio from shale-gas...

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Radicals push past old-school activism to oppose shale drilling

By Ellen M. Gilmer, October 24, 2012. Source: E&E EnergyWire MILLFIELD, Ohio — Cusi Ballew is willing to die to stop drilling. He’s climbing a dozen feet above the soggy ground this September...

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BREAKING: EF! & Appalachia Resist shut down & blockade fracking waste storage...

3pm on 19 February, Situation still unfolding.  for updates click here MORE PHOTOS HERE. Following the annual winter Earth First! rendezvous blockading has begun at a Fracking Waste Storage Facility in...

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8 people plea No Contest to trespassing while protesting frack waste in New...

March 5, 2013. Source: Appalachia Resist! Washington County, Ohio - 8 people who participated in a February 19 protest at GreenHunter Energy’s New Matamoras frack waste facility pled no contest to...

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Remembering the Kent State shooting: 43 years later

By Dave Ross, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Will Miller Green Mountain Veterans for Peace, 4 May, 2013 Kent State Ohio, touched by history. Last night I met, and talked briefly with, Dean Kahler...

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Eight arrested in Ohio frack waste blockade

February 1, 2014. Source: Appalachia Resist! Eight farmers and local business leaders blocked the driveway leading to a fracking waste disposal site operated by K&H Partners of West Virginia. The...

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Ohio: Fracking blockaders plead to reduced charges

Note: Support direct action for community and eco-defense!  In a different action, last Thursday, five blockaders (and friends of ours) were arrested blocking the entrance to a frackpad in Tiadaghton...

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Oil, gas wells often keep operating despite violations

By Laura Arenschield & Jennifer Smith Richards, June 1, 2014.  Source: The Columbus Dispatch Ohio has more than tripled its number of inspectors of oil and gas wells in the past five years. But...

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Frack waste trucks blocked from entering injection well site in Athens County

June 5, 2014. Source: EarthFirst Newswire An Athens County resident has barricaded the gates of a frack-waste transfer station near the rest area off of HWY 50. No trucks can enter or leave the site,...

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