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Save Ohio Parks
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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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Fracking increases cancer and breathing illnesses; diminishes plant, wildlife and fish populations; depletes and contaminates water; and its methane gas emissions trap heat in the atmosphere at a rate 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide-- accelerating climate warming and climate change.
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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.@saveohioparks.bsky.social volunteers distributed hundreds of brochures to the public recently in front of COSI in Columbus.

The IMAX film there extolling the beauty of Ohio state parks was financed by the same Ohio GOP fracking them.

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Volunteers with Save Ohio Parks distributed hundreds of informational brochures to people entering COSI, where the Ohio Department of Natural Resources' new IMAX film promoting Ohio's beautiful state parks is being shown. Nowhere does the film admit that the same Gov. Mike DeWine and GOP promoting our parks is also fracking them. (Paul Becker Photo) The ODNR's new "Wild at Heart" docu film is being shown in six Ohio cities across the state. Save Ohio Parks wants Gov. Mike DeWine to call a moratorium on all nominations, bids and leases to frack under Ohio state parks and public lands. (Paul Becker Photo) A Save Ohio Parks volunteer waves to passersby at COSI to let them know that Ohio's pristine state parks and public lands are being desecrated and people's health threatened by polluting natural gas extraction mandated by the state of Ohio. (Paul Becker Photo)
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Ohio DNR's Mary Mertz tells WOSU she wants young people to fall in love with Ohio's gorgeous state parks featured in new IMAX docu film. bit.ly/3WMkDCE

No mention how the same Gov. Mike DeWine promoting these parks also fracks them.

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Ohio's state parks shine in upcoming IMAX film
From the Great Lakes to Hocking Hills, the IMAX film will allow viewers to experience the state in a new way.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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I was glad to be with other @saveohioparks.bsky.social folks for the state parks IMAX movie. What a great and caring group! #DontFrackOurParks
November 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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OH Supreme Court to decide on upholding approval of 6,000-acre Oak Run solar-- a @billgates.bsky.social investor project. @dispatch.com: bit.ly/3JrzsHT

We need solar over parking lots, on Ohio flat roofs over schools, warehouses and data centers, too.

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November 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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UN's Antonio Guterres warns COP30 in Brazil missing 1.5° C warming limit is "red line" for habitable planet.

Fossil fuel companies prevent progress. @theguardian.com: bit.ly/4oyq3xm

Ohio lawmakers who frack Ohio are climate villains, too.

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Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit
UN secretary general António Guterres urges opening session in Brazil to bring about a ‘fundamental paradigm shift’
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November 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Interview starts about 8 minutes in. The guys at the Hilliard Beacon did a great job! HB 15 has forced a 73 MW gas fuel cell to power a data center on an unsuspecting community with no public hearing - just as I said it would. This will emit 1.45 million lbs of CO2 per day. More here.
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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.@saveohioparks.bsky.social ' Cathy Cowan Becker on Ohio energy law benefitting oil and gas by squeezing community ability to respond to data centers powered by polluting natural gas. Hilliard Beacon: bit.ly/3LO4xpG

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HBAC 136: Save Ohio Parks' - Cathy Cowan Becker
Advocate and organizer joins to unpack the legislation behind the Amazon Fuel Cell project. (image courtesy of Paul Becker for Save Ohio Parks)
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November 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Inspired by how manta rays feed, three Case Western University friends developed a dryer filter to reduce microplastic shed on clothing.

Now it and University of Akron are are investing. @devinnunnari.bsky.social Burning River News: bit.ly/4opVRo4

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Northeast Ohio Universities Invest in Local Start-Up to Reduce Microplastic Pollution Emitted from Dorm Washing Machines
Every time one single synthetic garment is put through the washing machine it has the potential to release up to 1.5 million microfibers into the environment. When Max Pennington, who was an engineeri...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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.@saveohioparks.bsky.social friend Nate Murray created an inspiring docu film on two friends traveling the country talking to people helping to save the planet.

Help him raise $20,000 to finish. Trailer: bit.ly/3JyDtKD

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Support Us — Local Motives
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November 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Thank you, @ccbecker271.bsky.social of @saveohioparks.bsky.social, @kentksmith.bsky.social, Sen. Bill DeMora, who questioned Sub SB 219 hearing wording on gas & oil industry cleanup liability. Begin min. 18:16: bit.ly/4oR9AUy

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Ohio Senate Energy Committee | The Ohio Channel
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November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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100+ water groups from Pennsylvania to Mississippi River form Ohio River Basin Coalition to protect water quality in 12+ states and 40 tribal nations: Indiana Public Broadcasting: bit.ly/4osULbe

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New coalition aims to clean up, protect waterways in the Ohio River Basin
The watershed that flows into the Ohio River covers most of Indiana, more than a dozen other states and at least 40 tribal nations.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Last-minute Ohio 3,156-page budget told EPA to cut emissions protection from Clean Air Act plan.

Environmentalists want it back: @kmkowalski.bsky.social @canarymedia.com: bit.ly/4opJsQW

Deja vu with HB 507, which fracks Ohio public lands.

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Ohio scrapped a key tool to fight air pollution. Advocates want it…
The air nuisance rule has helped advocates rein in pollution from coal-burning plants and other facilities. Without it, air quality could worsen.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Ohioans face more potential air and water contamination with Big Oil's latest money grab: Carbon Capture Sequestration and Storage.

Register for Nov. 6 webinar:

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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Data centers and drought: 78% of Harrison County water used in 2023 was for fracking.

70% of Carroll County water used in 2023 went to fracking, too.

Randi Pokladnik @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/3WZcLhc

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Ohio’s data centers will impact many Ohioans • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio’s Appalachian region is no longer a bucolic setting of small rural communities; it is an industrial zone littered with fracking operations. Soon, central Ohio will experience the same degradation...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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VOTE today for local and state candidates who commit to protecting our democracy, our freedoms and our state parks and public lands.

We need a second hearing on HB 399-- to ban fracking in state parks and Lake Erie.

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November 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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HB 170 mirrors what Ohio does now as it fracks our public lands:

Forces landowners to allow CO2 storage projects under private property without consent; shifts liability to taxpayers; blocks local governments from protecting communities.

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November 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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It's early stages for proposed Hamilton and Trenton data centers. @journalnews.bsky.social: bit.ly/3Jj9wOC

Do Ohioans understand the spectrum of health and environmental harms of data centers run on fossil fuels fracked from our public lands?

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What is a data center? Hamilton, Trenton likely to get large facilities for vast computing networks
A proposed data center in Hamilton is not yet a done deal, though city leaders have been working with the developer for nearly two years on the project that will be on 29 acres of city-owned land. In ...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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If you read one data center story this year, this is it.

Read to end for what locals say about data centers in their communities. @newyorker.com: bit.ly/3JIwCOF

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Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid
A data center, which can use as much electricity as Philadelphia, is the new American factory, creating the future and propping up the economy. How long can this last?
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November 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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.@saveohioparks.bsky.social volunteers gave brochures to visitors to Union Terminal in Cincinnati yesterday.

We say what Gov. DeWine won't admit: fracking state parks negates IMAX film conservation claims.

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Motorists appeared grateful for literature from Save Ohio Parks, reflecting 98 percent of the thousands of anti-fracking comments sent to the Gov. Mike DeWine-appointed Oil and Gas Land Management Commission. The commission approves state parks and public lands for fracking. (Save Ohio Parks Photo) A Save Ohio Parks volunteer shows a poster of the Salt Fork State Park sign in Guernsey County, the first state park to be fracked for natural gas. Fracking has industrialized and polluted pristine rural landscapes across eastern and southeastern Ohio. (Save Ohio Parks Photo) Ohio lawmakers have stated they want natural gas from fracking Ohio to run 300 new data centers planned in the state. Data centers run on gas will increase nearby residents' breathing illnesses; use massive amounts of electricity and water; spike utility and property taxes; and industrialize farm land. (Save Ohio Parks Photo) Gov. Mike DeWine and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources promote the beauty of Ohio state parks in an IMAX film at Union Terminal and theatres across the state. What they don't admit in the film: Ohio is fracking in the same areas it claims to love and conserve. (Save Ohio Parks)
November 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Prologis wants 141-acre data center in Trenton. Hamilton residents are already protesting one. @bryndippoldjn.bsky.social @wcpo9news.bsky.social: bit.ly/47CCtgm

Lawmakers jumped on the data center wagon before knowing their true costs.

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1 million-square-foot data center proposed across 141 acres in Trenton
The total 141 acres lies within the Trenton Industrial Park near Kennel and Woodsdale Roads, just east of Molson Coors Beverage Company and south of Trenton’s downtown.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Scary, comprehensive story on the data center boom by Stephen Witt @newyorker.com: bit.ly/3JIwCOF

It doesn't look good for Ohioans' health, farms or planet.

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Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid
A data center, which can use as much electricity as Philadelphia, is the new American factory, creating the future and propping up the economy. How long can this last?
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November 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Tell the Oil and Gas Land Management Commission: No fracking at Jockey Hollow Wildlife Area.

Choose Nomination 25-DNR-0002. Submit your comment by Nov. 13: bit.ly/47hH5IJ

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Jockey Hollow is a 3,469-acre wildlife area six miles southwest of Cadiz in Harrison County. The area experienced a decade of surface mining from 1958 to 1968, when 200,000 tons of coal were removed. Now reclaimed through conservation efforts, an unnamed oil and gas company wants to frack it. (Save Ohio Parks)
November 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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With his long track record of buddying up to climate change deniers like Bjorn Lomborg, @billgates.bsky.social is not the one to be listening to about climate change. @billmckibben.bsky.social : bit.ly/4926mJz

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Climate Gates
Maybe we don't need billionaire opinions on everything
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November 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Help spread the word about @saveohioparks.bsky.social. We work to ban fracking under state parks and Lake Erie.

Sustainable gifts, with profits going to our education efforts. bit.ly/3WGOXOZ

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Save Ohio Parks | End Fracking of Public Lands | Bonfire
A grassroots movement trying to stop fracking of Ohio public lands
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November 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM