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COLUMBUS — Eight experts from across the state will speak on why Ohio is failing on sustainable energy, the environment, planet protection and democracy at the Rally for State Parks,

Spreadsheets show more than 800 releases of gas, oil, brine or other materials from industry activities onto the ground or into the air and water since 2018 began. Ohio oil and gas industry accident data boost worries about drilling under state...

Ohio’s Oil and Gas Land Management Commission met Sept. 18 to discuss the fate of our beloved state parks, wildlife areas, and public lands. Yet instead of listening to the people, the commissioners seemed mainly to do the work of the fracking industry, write the all-volunteer members of the citizen group Save Ohio Parks.

An Ohio commission is poised to rule on proposals to drill under state parks and wildlife areas before the conclusion of an investigation into fabricated public comments submitted in favor of the proposals.

An Ohio Department of Natural Resources panel voted to let companies bid on rights to drill in four parcels of state-owned land, but it put off similar votes on drilling in state parks to its next meeting.

The four parcels of land nominated for drilling permits are public rights-of-way near state routes in eastern Ohio.

The state’s public land leasing commission is still on track to approve drilling under parks and wildlife before year’s end.

This week were explaining how a youth prison riot started, where fracking under state parks stands, and how a GOP PAC performed in its first year.

"If eastern Ohio wants to prevent a repeat of history, now is the time to act."

Public comments on the first round of applications to drill for gas under state parks and other public lands are due by July 20.