A Texas-based company was chosen as the highest and best bid to frack about 170 acres of Leesville Wildlife Area during this month’s Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission meeting.

Ohio has hundreds of injection wells that store waste from oil and natural gas production. In one southeast Ohio city, ...

More of the Leesville Wildlife Area in Carroll County has been opened up for fracking.

xCOLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio commission awarded bids to frack oil and gas under state parks Monday, despite statewide backlash and an ongoing investigation into possibly fraudulent support. The Ohio Oil ...

This story was originally published by. In the far reaches of Appalachian Ohio, DeepRock Disposal Solutions and other companies pump salty, hazardous waste from oil and gas fracking thousands of feet ...

Thomas Suddes is a former legislative reporter with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and writes from Ohio University. Nothing better shows how Ohio gets sold to the highest bidder — all nice and legal, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Environmental advocates and Ohioans converged in Columbus on Monday to call out the environmental havoc that extending lease terms to frack Ohio's state ...

The entrance to Salt Fork State Park, April 5, 2024, Jefferson Township in Guernsey County, Ohio. Credit: Photo by Graham Stokes for Ohio Capital Journal. A bill that would expand fracking leases in ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- It's déjà vu all over again for state park lovers and protectors. In 2022, during the Christmas lame duck session, Ohio lawmakers stuffed a simple poultry ...

Fracking pumpjacks. These pieces of equipment are crucial to oil field and fracking operations. (Getty Images.) Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump both say they don’t want ...