Aug 9, 2020 by Tish O’Dell Tish O’Dell is the Ohio Community Organizer for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. Tish works in multiple states and was recently featured in national and international press for her work with Toledo, Ohio residents and their passage of the Lake Erie Bill of Rights. She has worked on over 40 laws and county charters in Ohio. Of these, 12 have been put to vote and six have passed. She can be contacted at Tish@celdf.org. In Columbus, Ohio officials have quietly allowed direct democracy…
Year: 2020
Nature Scores a Big Win Against Fracking in a Small Pennsylvania Town
After a seven-year battle, Grant Township fought off a permit for an injection well. “Fights like ours should mushroom all around Pennsylvania,” says town supervisor As published in Rolling Stone Magazine, April 1st, 2020Author: Justin Nobel An unlikely crew of environmentalists who took on the powerful Pennsylvania fracking industry in a David vs. Goliath battle to keep an injection well out of their community have notched an important victory in their fight. Using a novel strategy — seeking legal rights for nature itself — the rural western Pennsylvania community of…
Rolling Stone: 'America's Radioactive Secret'
Alot of people in Ohio have been waiting for this story to become public! Oil and gas brines that are waste products of wells are hundreds of times more radioactive than has been previously known to the public. It is time to ban the use of these materials anywhere on the surface environment. Click HERE to read the full story in Rolling Stone Magazine. Featured image: Brine trucks at injection well in Cambridge, Ohio. George Etheridge for Rolling Stone.