FaCT Newsletters

Ohio House Bill 197 is designed to encourage the development of community solar facilities throughout our state.

Currently, most electricity in Ohio is generated by burning coal or methane. Even today, fossil fuels are extracted from the ground through extreme procedures ...

The United State Forest Service has proposed a rule change to allow carbon dioxide captured directly from the air or from industrial processes to be stored permanently on public lands. This carbon dioxide would be pumped ...

Carbon capture is the latest technology the fossil fuel industry and federal government are pushing that allows the industry to keep drilling while professing to get a handle on rising temperatures and climate change. Eastern Appalachian Ohio, West Virginia, and southwestern Pennsylvania are targets for 12 Class VI Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) ...

On Monday, September 18th, about 75 Ohio citizens traveled from all over the state to attend the Oil and Gas Land Management Commission meeting. The meeting was to decide if thousands of acres of public land in Ohio including Salt Fork State Park, Wolf Run State Park, Zepernick Wildlife Area, and Valley Run Wildlife Area, would be open to bidding ...

Geoengineering refers to proposals for solving the problem of climate change, not by mitigation—that is, reducing emissions and deforestation, the causes of global heating—but instead by the use of new technologies. There are quite a few ideas out there for geoengineering, or “negative emissions,” but they all come down to one of two approaches. ...

Recently the federal government announced plans to change its rules to allow Carbon Capture and Storage in national forests, which could allow the gas and oil industry to store carbon dioxide in national forests. Ohio’s only national forest—the Wayne National Forest—could be a candidate for this storage. The U.S. Forest Service’s rule change would ...