Why accept Meta’s polluting 500 MV NEO gas plant at Prometheus data center without a fight? @saveohioparks.bsky.social offers Commenting and Testimony webinar Sept. 29: Register: bit.ly/3TBQOGZ @ccbecker271.bsky.social @indivcentraloh.bsky.social @peopleoverpetro.bsky.socia

@amyactonoh.bsky.social takes aim at oil and gas in longtime GOP Appalachia region. She pledges to help on injection wells threatening Washington County drinking water, education funding in Gallia County. Jake Zuckerman @signalohio.bsky.social: bit.ly/4dQAAR3 @ccbecker271.bsky.social

Democrat Amy Acton joins fracking-waste fight in red Ohio - Signal Ohio

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton promised to staunch, if not prevent, a possible environmental disaster of leaking liquid fracking waste.

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Join us next Tuesday to learn how to push back on two large polluting gas plants proposed to power data centers in Central Ohio.

Save Ohio Parks@saveohioparks.bsky.social · 3w ago

Don't let billionaires and secretive local governments pollute our air without a fight. @saveohioparks.bsky.social offers webinars Sept. 22, 29 on how to write compelling comments and testimony for upcoming public hearings. bit.ly/workshop9-26 @ccbecker271.bsky.social @cleanairmoms-oh.bsky.social

My op-ed on Meta's FOUR gas plants to power its data center in New Albany, Ohio. Meta is building so many gas plants that it left the RE100, a corporate renewable energy pact.

Save Ohio Parks@saveohioparks.bsky.social · 3w ago

Natural gas powering Meta's New Albany 1,150 MW Prometheus data center will come from Ohio public lands in Appalachia. If Google can power a data center on renewable energy, why can't Meta? Opinion. @ccbecker271.bsky.social @dispatch.com: bit.ly/4rm7pLf @ssteingraber1.bsky.social

It's a good start. Do the right thing, JBIC!

Oil Change International@oilchange.org · last mo.

In May, community leaders from Freeport, TX confronted the Japanese financiers of a dirty, risky liquified natural gas (LNG) project. 💥✊Now, one of the project’s biggest backers, JBIC, is launching an investigation into the Freeport LNG project. bit.ly/4cuO70b

Hey Canada Pension Plan ... this will STILL turn Ohio's state parks and wildlife areas into a fracking sacrifice zone. Where do you think the gas is coming from for these gas plants? Here's an idea: Invest in something that actually helps people, not harms them.

Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health@shiftaction.bsky.social · last mo.

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is making a risky bet on gas to power the build-out of data centres for AI -- contradicting its own Climate Change Principles, crowding-out renewable energy, and locking-in carbon pollution for decades. #cdnpoli

When a community fights back, sometimes they win.

Save Ohio Parks@saveohioparks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Proposed 800 MW EdgeConneX Ashville data center goes to ballot. Connor Dewine Scioto Valley Guardian: bit.ly/4cGjwN6 Advocacy works! Ask questions. Research. Organize. Speak out. Persist. Note the villains. Then vote. @ccbecker271.bsky.social @haltheharm.bsky.social @commoncauseohio.bsky.social

If Oklahoma can do it, why aren't more states cracking down on Big Insurance? By challenging Allstate and State Farm's allegedly unfair claims handling practices, AG Gentner Drummond is opening the door to a broader crackdown. His counterparts elsewhere have no excuse to sit on the sidelines. 🧵⬇️

Cracking Down on Big Insurance in … Oklahoma? - The American Prospect

State Attorney General Gentner Drummond is leading a crackdown on Allstate and State Farm.

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Forgive me mom for the blasphemy, but this is a goddamn murder-for-hire machine. At scale.

Central Oregon Daily News@codaily.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Oregon's senators are demanding the CFTC crack down on prediction markets that let people bet on wildfires — warning the practice could tempt gamblers to start fires themselves to win their bets.

I'm very happy to get an opinion piece into a national publication like The Hill, but I wish it was under better circumstances for Ohio.

Save Ohio Parks@saveohioparks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ohio's data center stampede: ill-preparation, lack of care for people's health and the environment makes us a case study on how NOT to develop data centers. Opinion. @ccbecker271.bsky.social @thehill.com: bit.ly/4vVaQJM @amyactonoh.bsky.social @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social @sierraclub.org

This should be common sense. Solar, wind, and batteries are by far the most affordable and cleanest forms of energy. But these projects lock in dirty fossil fuels for decades that are more expensive every year. The oil and gas industry gets rich at the expense of our health, wallets, and the planet.

Oil Change International@oilchange.org · 2mo ago

📣 Our new report finds that the Trump admin’s energy + AI “dominance” policies + hostility to renewables will make it even harder for working families to afford their energy bills. Thanks to Trump, the wholesale price of fossil gas could DOUBLE over the next decade, outpacing inflation every year.

@reuters.com's @valerievolcovici.bsky.social interviews Bowling Green residents livid at politicians, Meta over gargantuan data center. NDAs, pollution, property values are cited, while Ohio GOP does nothing to help. Video: reut.rs/4yw6NG5 @ccbecker271.bsky.social @commoncauseohio.bsky.social

PODCAST: Data centers: Small town politics turn into a national fight

Companies are racing to build data centers. Local communities are pushing back.

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This is classic Ohio ... corruption that squashes renewable energy

Save Ohio Parks@saveohioparks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Corrupt @jobsohio.bsky.social is now private org exempt from public records requests. @kmkowalski.bsky.social @canarymedia.com: bit.ly/4ffLHEr It uses tax money from liquor sales to award energy grants to cronies and shuts out cheaper renewables. @ccbecker271.bsky.social @kentksmith.bsky.social

@ehpinfo.bsky.social, @saveohioparks.bsky.social are monitoring air quality near fracking well pads at Salt Fork State Park. Learn what we know so far about emissions at July 30 virtual event. @ccbecker271.bsky.social @cleanairmoms-oh.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social @ssteingraber1.bsky.social

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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Thou shalt not blame Canada for wildfires caused by climate change you’ve spent your whole life denying and intensifying through your own greed and stupidity.

The SEC is proposing huge changes to corporate reporting, in a condensed time period, that would collectively dramatically reduce public company disclosures. Some comment letters are not so much comments as preludes to litigation. This is a good example: www.sec.gov/comments/S7-...

More of this please

Moira Birss@moira.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Climate change-fueled disasters threaten the safety of our homes & insurance provides a financial safety net to help us recover. But current insurance systems are failing, leaving households high (& not dry). What can the federal government do? I've got a proposal: peri.umass.edu/publication/...

It’s tragic that CO₂ doesn’t look and smell like wildfire smoke.

If you don't live in an oil and gas region, you may not know how difficult it is to get this toxic pollution shut down. But these folks did it with persistence and grassroots organizing.

Buckeye Environmental Network@buckeyeenviro.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A year and a half of organizing around the Redbird wells led to this. Now, we wonder what comes next.There are still many unanswered questions. benohio.org/sixteen-mont...

@saveohioparks.bsky.social co-founder Jenny Morgan talks about her work documenting just 101 of nearly 2,000 gas and oil industry over 8 years. Begins Min. 18: @joedemare.bsky.social: bit.ly/4vNp4Nq @ccbecker271.bsky.social @kentksmith.bsky.social @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social @twrader.bsky.social

For A Green Future: Fossil Fuel Explosions! June 28, 2026 Episode 382

Guest Host Joe DeMare talks about the interconnectedness of the crises facing the world today. From the war in Ukraine to the krill in the Antarctic to the salmon on your grocery shelves to the Gulf oil spill, everything is interconnected into one, dystopian system that threatens the world. Next, he interviews Jenny Morgan who has extensively researched the problems with fossil fuel accidents, spills, and explosions in Ohio. Rebecca Wood talks about mountain and wood Sorrel. Ecological News includes: Trump backing off his plans to dismantle the nation's ocean water monitoring system; the Antarctic heat wave, and a huge solar/battery development going in in Utah. #Renewables #nuclear #anti-nuclear #Ecology #Sorrel #Fossil Fuel Accident #FAGF #ForAGreenFuture #Climate #windenergy #Solarenergy #Nonuclear

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Solar arrays take up much less farmland than golf courses and urban sprawl. @kmkowalski.bsky.social @canarymedia.com: bit.ly/4wnSvWg Just a bit of oil and gas industry disinformation debunked. @amyactonoh.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social @twrader.bsky.social @kentksmith.bsky.social

In Ohio, solar is no big threat to farmland

Fears over farmland loss have fueled arguments against renewables in Ohio — but golf courses and suburban sprawl take up far more acreage than solar does.

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Thank you @foescot.bsky.social in Japan

Save Ohio Parks@saveohioparks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Friends of Earth Japan and #JACSES claim Japanese banks failed to environmentally assess U.S. federal property before loaning $250 B to develop U.S. projects, including Piketon's 10 GW AI data center complex. Trans. press release: bit.ly/44erXdZ @ccbecker271.bsky.social @kentksmith.bsky.social

Ohio GOP's nominee Vivek Ramaswamy is clear he supports fossil fuels, data center expansion in Ohio. Ohio governor appoints heads of many regulating agencies, including those fracking Ohio public lands for gas to power centers. Bonnie Lucas @tiffinohio.net: bit.ly/44Q4UGx @ccbecker271.bsky.social

How a Ramaswamy administration could flood Ohio with data centers

If elected, Ramaswamy would control state boards that approve data centers, incentivize them, and set utility rules—while holding investments across the industry he'd regulate.

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Thanks @dc2tom.bsky.social

Save Ohio Parks@saveohioparks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Citizens Utility Board: keeping aging coal plants online raises residential rates and blunts investment in efficient power generation. @nckevns.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/3QHWfmq Add more wind and solar to the grid. Let the market decide. @ohiocitizen.org @ccbecker271.bsky.social

Join @saveohioparks.bsky.social's Rachel Kutzley and panelists in Cincinnati July 15 at live-audience episode of Cincinnati Edition. Noon. Listen in: @wvxu.org 91.7 FM. Data Centers and Communities. RSVP: bit.ly/4vAOFIJ @ccbecker271.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social

RSVPs now Open: "Data Centers and Communities" | July 15, 2026

Are we living in the “Silicon Heartland”? Our region is attracting major tech development and we’re one of the top hubs for data center expansion nationwide. Now, pushback from communities is causing ...

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Since the state of Ohio is fracking its own state parks, it's not a surprise that some cities want a piece of the action. But Steubenville wants to frack 99 acres of a historic park dating back to the Revolutionary War. Sure, money talks, but how can people be so stupid??

Save Ohio Parks@saveohioparks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Steubenville wants to frack its historic Beatty Park. @saveohioparks.bsky.social: bit.ly/4fcOSvw Huh. Hasn't enough of that $310 M frack revenue from public lands trickled down to help Ohio small towns in fracked counties like Jefferson? Where is it being spent? @ccbecker271.bsky.social

@nivenpolitics.bsky.social: Attacking data centers is a political winner, given widespread concern across the political spectrum over their environmental effects: @andrewjtobias.bsky.social @signalohio.bsky.social: bit.ly/4pes1Ei @ccbecker271.bsky.social @commoncauseohio.bsky.social

Sherrod Brown attacks Husted over Ohio data centers - Signal Ohio

Targeting data centers puts Brown, a longtime labor ally, at odds with the building trades unions that want the construction jobs – some of which have already lined up behind Husted.

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Why is a Japanese bank financing buildout of LNG export terminals in Texas -- next to vulnerable communities that have already endured decades of fossil fuel pollution?

Oil Change International@oilchange.org · 3mo ago

“Freeport LNG is poisoning people in my community,” says Manning Rollerson. Freeport, TX residents live next to a dirty, risky gas project that threatens their health & safety. In May, community leaders flew to Tokyo to confront Japanese institutions funding the project. [1/4]

Elon Musk is in deep shite again. His corporations aren't worth nearly what he has said they are. All this shows why we need a Securities and Exchange Commission that’s on the side of average investors and the public — and not bought off by today’s robber barons.

Musk in Deep Shite Again

His companies aren't worth nearly what he has said they are

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