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Mentor Marsh not only provides invaluable fishing and birding habitat but it is located just south of a favorite recreational area – Headlands Beach State Park.
Unfortunately, the Marsh is threatened by a proposed permit from Shamrock Building Center, Ltd., that would fill-in and degrade wetlands upstream from the Marsh. Read More
95% of Carroll depends on groundwater and yet, over the next ten years, ODNR will allow 2,000 unconventional gas wells and permit an underground coal mine without informing the public about potential impacts on water quality.
The Wayne National Forest is still recovering from coal mining impacts from over half a decade ago.
On Tuesday, the Sierra Club was joined by five state and national environmental groups in filing formal comments with the Wayne National Forest (WNF) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) opposing the agencies’ plan to lease 432.54 acres of federal coal for underground room and pillar mining. The joint comments were also co-signed by Buckeye Forest Council, Earthjustice, Ohio Environmental Council, Heartwood, and the Center for Biological Diversity. Read More
A guest post from Sierra Club’s Senior Beyond Coal Campaign Representative for Ohio, Dan Sawmiller reposted from Plunderbund: With public support growing for energy efficiency in Ohio, FirstEnergy and its allies are again trying to take their case behind closed doors.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 10, 2013 Contact: Jed Thorp, jed.thorp@sierraclub.org, (614) 461-0734 x 303 Sierra Club Statement on Cancellation of Eastlake Natural Gas Project COLUMBUS – Today Jed Thorp of the Ohio Chapter of the Sierra Club released the following statement after FirstEnergy and American Municipal Power [...continue reading.]
April 17th, 2013
On Earth Day April 22nd, Aveda salons and institutes are attempting to set a Guinness book of world records for a Global Cut A Thon to benefit clean water. As an earth month partner proceeds from the 20 events in Ohio will support the Sierra [...continue reading.]
