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When Terry and Ernest Bateson hear rumbling, they know the trucks are coming.  Every year, semi-trucks filled to the brim with liquid manure drive by the retired farmers' home in Wood County's Portage Township. The semi-trucks are carrying waste from the CAFOs, or "concentrated animal feeding operations" – in layman's terms, factory farms.  "The road turns brown from the spillage," Ernest Bateson said.  The number of animals in the Maumee watershed has doubled from 9 to 20 million from 2005 to 2018, a study by environmental advocates found. More animals mean more poop – and the...

Aaron Doster / Associated Press Ohio's restrictions and guidelines around COVID-19 have changed tremendously since the governor issued his first public health orders last March. As part of WOSU’s A Year Of COVID series, we asked readers what questions they still had about the pandemic and the state's response. Reader Adam Leeds sent in this question:  Does Ohio still have a ban on mass gatherings? The short answer is yes. Ohio may have ended its stay-at-home order and canceled the nightly curfew, but the ban on “mass gatherings” remains in place.  Under the most recent public he...

The Dispatch, that fuel cell technologies have advanced to the point that carbon-free emissions vehicles of all sizes are truly right around the corner. He says Ohio is in a great position to play an outsized manufacturing role in this industry.   Question: Are fuel cells a viable industry right now?  Matter: Yes. Where mobile fuel cells have really taken off is in forklifts. Plug Power, for instance, is the industry leader right now, and they’re expanding in Ohio, which is big in distribution centers where these forklifts are used. Plug Power just raised something like $1 bi...

I just read where Josh Mandel has announced he is running for the U.S. Senate job being vacated by Rob Portman.I wondered if this was a good thing and rece