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Ohio org aims to stop fracking under our pristine state parks and public lands. Help protect our natural resources for future generations. Join us. Act.

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Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 2h

PFAS use in data centers endangers workers and neighbors-- and their climate impact is worse than we thought. @theguardian.com: bit.ly/4mXRbV0

Why are lawmakers and oligarchs so intent on destroying Ohioans' health and public lands with continued natural gas expansion?

@devinnunnari.bsky.social

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom

Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 2h

Protect your property rights! Call Sens. @berniemmoreno (614) 469-2083, @SenJonHusted (614) 369-4925 NOW.

Tell them NO on Pipeline Safety Act amendment criminalizing protest against CO2 pipelines on private property. bit.ly/4kU3Jf1

@chrisrgibbs.bsky.social @jbalmert.bsky.social @canarymedia.com

Guest column/Public meeting fell short on carbon capture facts

Recently, I attended an open-house meeting about carbon capture and sequestration. This process would capture carbon dioxide emissions from various industries and power plants and transport it through...

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 3h

What are Trump and ICE doing? Trying to destroy our First Amendment rights of free speech and protest.

Don't let them.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Rich Miller @techjournalism.bsky.social · 3h

Understanding the finer points of power has never been more important. On the podcast, Legend Energy CEO
Dan Crosby shares insights in the current power constraints, the growing profile of natural gas, and deploying onsite power at data centers.
youtu.be/GJiBqvUl5rU?...

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 2d

Trump wants to log Wayne Natl Forest. 98% of Ohio forests are privately-owned.

Do we need to log the 2% of Ohio public forests that belong to the public? Ohio Enviro Council in @theguardian.com : bit.ly/4pYg7OH

@athensindy.bsky.social @canarymedia.com @sarahedon.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com

Ohio’s sole national forest could be wiped out as Trump targets land for logging

Over 80% of Wayne national forest classified as suitable for logging, drawing concern from locals

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 2d

The U.S. insurance crisis is the canary in the coal mine-- and the canary is dead. @yalee360.bsky.social: bit.ly/46UfcpI

Climate change is here. Fracking natural gas from Ohio public lands only makes it worse faster.

@dispatch.com @sarahedon.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com

How Climate Risks Are Putting Home Insurance Out of Reach

After years underestimating the risks posed by climate-fueled disasters, the U.S. home insurance industry is in turmoil. In vulnerable areas, rising insurance costs are upending housing markets and co...

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 3d

Belmont County school district-- in Ohio's most-fracked county-- needs a 2-mill levy for schools.

Each district school roof needs replacement. WTRFNews7: bit.ly/4nAIQHJ

Where are jobs and prosperity fracking promised 15 years ago?

@seanholeary.bsky.social @jobsohio.bsky.social @nbc4i.com

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 3d

Solar is cheap, scattered, non-poluting and easy to replace. Giant fossil fuel companies are prone to drone attack.

@billmckibben.bsky.social writes on why solar is booming in war-torn #Ukraine: bit.ly/3IQVWS4

@repmarcykaptur.bsky.social @twrader.bsky.social
@dispatch.com

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 3d

Marietta city council acts to protect drinking water from toxic, radioactive injection well waste migration after packed-house meeting. Lawsuit and call for moratorium to come. @wtap.com: bit.ly/4mZaDAQ

@jcarrsmyth.bsky.social @apnews.com @dispatch.com @movca.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com

Marietta City Council approves resolutions on injection wells

Marietta City Council took historic action in its latest meeting, authorizing legal challenges against state regulators and calling for a statewide moratorium on injection wells.

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 3d

Former Bob Evans campus bought by Texas fracker EOG: @dispatch.com: bit.ly/476Pr70

@newalbanyohio.bsky.social and all Ohioans: Get health baseline tests now to prepare for your class-actions.

EOG owns Encino and rights to frack 1M Ohio acres.

@ssteingraber1.bsky.social @jcarrsmyth.bsky.social

Fortune 500 oil and gas company to take over old Bob Evans corporate campus

The space was acquired for $28.7 million.

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you! Finally out from under a pay wall... :)

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 4d

Hundreds of scientists worldwide collaborate to combat disinformation by making accurate climate info available to the public. @bberwyn.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org:
bit.ly/478JrL1

Valuable info for those who care about a livable planet.

@kentksmith.bsky.social @twrader.bsky.social

Despite the Trump Administration’s Best Efforts to Suppress It, Climate Science Is Alive and Well Online - Inside Climate News

Hundreds of scientists worldwide are collaborating to combat misinformation by making accurate climate information widely available to the public.

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 4d

Meta's New Albany data center to be world's largest. @mariadevito13.dispatch.com @dispatch.com : bit.ly/47fvgmv

Will it run on natural gas from under Ohio state parks and public lands?

The world's in a climate crisis.

@sarahedon.bsky.social @kmkowalski.bsky.social @nckevns.bsky.social

Meta expanding New Albany site for the world's highest capacity data center

Meta's expansion at its New Albany data center, underway since 2022, is for the world's first online gigawatt data center.

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 5d

Marietta council approves resolutions weighing litigation for injection wells and calls for 3-year Ohio moratorium on new wells to protect local drinking water. Marietta Times: bit.ly/4gT6FrT

This is how democracy works.

@fractracker.bsky.social @sarahedon.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social

Marietta City Council passes 3 injection well resolutions

Marietta City Council on Thursday focused much of its regular meeting on drinking water protections and state-regulated injection wells, moving forward with two measures tied to oversight and potentia...

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 5d

Marietta injection wells approved under old, laxer rules despite 6 wells shut down for oil and gas migration that threatened local water supplies. @athensindy.bsky.social: bit.ly/4mBDhHY

Lawmakers know this, yet continue to fail Ohio.

@ohdems.bsky.social @butlercountydemsoh.bsky.social

ODNR using old rules on new injection wells tied to state senator – Athens County Independent

Tighter rules for new fracking injection wells weren’t applied to multiple applications from a company formerly headed by an Ohio senator who chairs the Energy Committee.

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 5d

In about-face, Prez Trump embraces 900-page Project 2025 as playbook to build executive power & wreck the planet faster with fossil fuels. @apnews.com: bit.ly/3VNGcC

@saveohioparks.bsky.social chooses democracy and a livable planet.

@davidpepperoh.bsky.social @fractracker.bsky.social

Trump no longer distancing himself from Project 2025 as he uses shutdown to further pursue its goals

President Donald Trump is now openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign.

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 6d

Important Marietta meeting tonight. Its drinking water is at risk.

We can live without oil and gas.

We cannot live without clean drinking water.

@buckeyeenviro.bsky.social @heyjohnrussell.bsky.social @sarahedon.bsky.social @movca.bsky.social @dispatch.com

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 6d

U.S. government shutdown to hurt EPA's ability to protect citizens from corporate polluters. @apnews.com : bit.ly/3IQjA1a

Who is responsible for cities like Marietta when it comes to oil and gas contamination of drinking water?

@dispatch.com @canarymedia.com @signalohio.bsky.social

EPA's job is to protect America's air, water and land. Here's how a shutdown affects that effort

The Environmental Protection Agency faces challenges during a government shutdown. The agency's mission to protect health and the environment is at risk without a federal budget.

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 6d

If approved by ODNR's Oil and Gas Land Management Commission, fracking 1,460 acres of Jockey Hollow Wildlife Area will be one of largest on Ohio's preserved lands. @signalohio.bsky.social:
bit.ly/4gQyX6b

Note to Ohio GOP: solar is cheaper than natural gas. Reliable, too.

@sarahedon.bsky.social

Company asks to open fracking for oil and gas on 1,460 acres of Ohio protected wildlife - Signal Ohio

A fracking company seeking oil and gas deposits asked Ohio officials to open 1,460 acres of Jockey Hollow Wildlife Area in Belmont County for drilling.

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 6d

Pope Leo calls for a change of heart to truly embrace action on global warming, saying we cannot call ourselves disciples of Christ without caring for all that is fragile and wounded. @theguardian.com:
bit.ly/46K6wSU

@ncronline.bsky.social @peacedominicans.bsky.social @jd-vance-1.bsky.social

‘Listen to the cry of the Earth’: Pope Leo takes aim at climate change sceptics

Pontiff laments that some ‘ridicule those who speak of global warming’, days after Trump’s claims of ‘con job’

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 7d

This is how insurance companies respond to increasing, massive property damage and human misery caused by climate change:

Denying claims, raising premiums, overcompensating CEOs— and investing in fossil-fuel companies. George Banziger in Marietta Times: bit.ly/474G9bC

@ccbecker271.bsky.social

Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner: Climate change, extreme weather and insurance companies

“We are homeowners whose entire neighborhoods have been destroyed by fires and we’re fighting our insurance companies while continuing to pay rate hike after rate hike.” “We are small business owners ...

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 7d

Make yourself heard.

It’s your drinking water, your life, your future, not the oil and gas industry’s.

@signalohio @CanaryMediaInc @MariettaTimes
@TheTimesLeader
@TimesRecorder @NewsandSentinel @BuckeyeEnviNtwk @ColsUnderground @DispatchAlerts

Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 7d

AI tools use four times the energy than a simple internet search.

Experts warn we’re rolling out these tools without a full grasp of their true environmental impacts.
Victor Tangermann
@futurism.com:
bit.ly/4nuFar3

@kentksmith.bsky.social @twrader.bsky.social @maxfilby.dispatch.com

Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI's Power Usage

The carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into videos is far worse than we thought.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 7d

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7d