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Forging a ‘Different Path,’ Communities Take Fracking Fight to the Ballot

by Andrea Germanos Environmental groups and concerned community members have taken to the streets in their fight to stop fracking—an...

Fracking Bans Pass in Denton, Texas, Two California Counties and One Ohio Town

With a record number of fracking issues on local ballots in California, Texas and Ohio, the outcome was decidedly mixed. Of the eight...

Disagreement On Legal Authority Complicates Local Fracking Bans

By Daniel Moore / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Last week in eastern Ohio, where natural gas production in the Utica Shale has been booming,...

Fracking Corporations Played the Democracy Game – Two Communities Set New Rules this Election

Around the country, communities fighting fracking took their cause to the ballot box in the 2014 cycle — or tried to. But even before...

Ohio Town, Seeking To Limit Drilling, Is Latest At Odds With State

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) is siding with two oil and gas companies in a court case challenging a Cleveland suburb’s...

Broadview Heights Activists Sue Ohio Gov. John Kasich And State Over Gas, Oil wells

BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio – A local activist group that opposes oil and gas wells in residential neighborhoods has sued the state of Ohio...