Ohio’s oil and gas industry continues to spread one of its cruel, bald-faced lies. Industry spokespeople claim fracking oil and gas from state parks and wildlife areas is “responsible development” of Ohio public lands. But parks don’t belong to one supermajority political party to lease, industrialize, monetize, and destroy. Ohio public lands belong to all […]

Southeastern Ohio has a serious problem underground. Now that problem is reaching the surface and threatening our drinking water.  As a petroleum geologist, my job is to understand the rock layers deep underground and how fluids move through them. In Washington County, Ohio, toxic, radioactive waste from failed fracking waste disposal wells is surfacing where […]