Dr. Peggy
@drpeggy70.bsky.social
I saw the world for what it was so I want to change it for the better. Environmental Activist PhD, registered nurse, futurist, workplace safety and health, into mentoring those who are being bullied Between the Waters Founder and Executive Director
@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
Rollback of the 2001 "roadless rule" that prevented roadbuilding and logging on 60 M acres of federal lands could actually increase threats of wildfires by four times. Water quality is at risk, too. Simmone Shah @time.com: bit.ly/4wyqOKW @drpeggy70.bsky.social @neosierraclub.bsky.social
Trump's Goal To Open More Forests to Logging Could Threaten Drinking Water For 25 Million Americans
A new study calculates the risk to clean water if the Trump Administration repeals the Roadless Rule.
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@saveohioparks.bsky.social: 1,600 of those EPA letters were submitted by our volunteers. Advocacy works! Join us! @cleanairmoms-oh.bsky.social @indivcentraloh.bsky.social @ohiocitizen.org @ccbecker271.bsky.social @ssteingraber1.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social
Ohio Capital Journal@ohiocapitaljournal.com · 3d agoCommentary: Ohio citizens showed power by stopping state EPA approval for data center pollution of waterways ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/29/o...
Migrating toxic, radioactive waste brine threatens drinking water for 12 communities and 100,000 people in SE Ohio. Two things Gov. DeWine should do immediately. David Jeffrey Opinion. @ohiocapitaljournal.com : bit.ly/4pZfvsH @twrader.bsky.social @kentksmith.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social
Ohio should treat the threat of radioactive fracking waste like the emergency that it is • Ohio Capital Journal
Southeastern Ohio has a serious problem underground with fracking waste injection. Now that problem is reaching the surface and threatening our drinking water, writes Marietta College petroleum geolog...
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Residents of Dayton urged the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to reject a proposed three-year increase in electric distribution rates by AES Ohio, citing rising costs despite reduced power usage and concerns about a potential BlackRock-led acquisition of AES Corp.
Tears and shouts: Residents plead again for break in electric price hikes
Residents of Dayton urged the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to reject a proposed three-year increase in electric distribution rates by AES Ohio, citing rising costs despite reduced power usage and concerns about a potential BlackRock-led acquisition of AES Corp.
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Data center developers make payments to local schools to offset lost tax revenue from massive state subsidies. Haley BeMiller @usatoday.com: bit.ly/4fnwEHJ Ohio GOP fails Ohioans and youth if accepting polluting data centers is necessary for good public education. @butlercountydemsoh.bsky.social
Amazon, Meta avoid millions in property taxes for Ohio data centers
Ohio data centers have racked up millions of dollars in property tax breaks. And local officials are still making deals.
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Steubenville accepts $1.1 million bid to frack 157 acres of its own land, including two parks ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/17/s...
Steubenville accepts $1.1 million bid to frack 157 acres of its own land, including two parks • Ohio Capital Journal
An eastern Ohio city has agreed to lease the city’s mineral rights to the oil and gas industry, including two local parks.
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BREAKING: @governor.ny.gov just issued an Executive Order that includes a moratorium on new data centers 🎉 This victory will put the brakes on dozens of planned projects and is the result of a large, growing movement to stop these extractive facilities.
In Ohio, voting is being increasingly restricted by @ohiogop. @oplingerdoug.bsky.social Opinion @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/4fh82Ai Rural, economically-distressed populations suffer most from fracking pollution; they are traditionally most often prevented from voting. @ccbecker271.bsky.social
Grace abandoned: Ohio’s journey to politicians stealing power from voters in elections • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio’s mail-in ballot grace period began as an effort to help all Ohioans vote and avoid embarrassing catastrophes like 2004, but axing it has become a tool for disenfranchising Democrats and concentr...
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One Big, Ugly Year later: Tell Congress to reverse Medicaid and SNAP cuts! action.momsrising.org/sign/hr1-ann...
One Big, Ugly Year later: Tell Congress to reverse Medicaid and SNAP cuts!
One year since the Big, Ugly Bill was passed and what are moms still waiting for? Lower costs, accessible health care, and relief from the harms caused by Trump’s Big, Ugly Bill. Last July 4th, Republ...
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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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Ohio's take from frack leases doesn't matter. What matters: protecting our fresh water from gas & oil radioactive waste brine contamination; preserving Ohio public lands for future generations. Jake Zuckerman @signalohio.bsky.social: bit.ly/4vRwYp5 @ccbecker271.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social
Ohio has made $314 million by opening state lands to fracking - Signal Ohio
Ohio’s new business of leasing about 22,000 acres of its lands to the oil and gas industry has grown into a $314 million gusher.
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@notredame.bsky.social study: PFAS decline seen in Lakes Erie, Ontario-- they are shallower-- but not Superior, Michigan, Huron. When forever chemicals are removed from production, food webs can cycle them out. Vivian La @grist.org: bit.ly/4pfIM1T @ccbecker271.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social
New research traces how 'forever chemicals' move through the Great Lakes and into people
The study used more than 40 years of data to map fluctuating PFAS levels across species in the region's food chain.
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Tune in to learn more. Join the in-person audience on Cincinnati Edition July 15 at noon. Topic is "Data Centers and Communities," a panel discussion including @saveohioparks.bsky.social @wvxu.org RSVP: bit.ly/44ru0eO @ccbecker271.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social @citybeatcincy.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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Will Gov. Mike DeWine's oil & gas commission rubberstamp fracking 23,000 acres of state park and wildlife area acreage? Jake Zuckerman @signalohio.bsky.social: bit.ly/3SrqbDP Join us at noon press conference, 1 p.m. meeting June 29. @thirdactoh.bsky.social @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social
23,000 acres of Ohio public land up for fracking in Monday votes - Signal Akron
State officials are scheduled to vote Monday to open or select a winning bid on about 23,000 acres of publicly owned wildlife preserves.
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Plastic pollution is the predictable result of a decades-long industry disinformation campaign. New brief: The Plastics Plot maps the nine frames the plastics industry uses to delay action and shape the terms of debate. 🧵
You would think that tax cuts to encourage degradation of American land and waters so that a private company can profit from prolonging fossil fuel dependence in Tokyo or Seoul makes for pretty bad politics. But Alaska's governor Mike Dunleavy has adopted the industry's pipe dreams as his own.
Lessons From an Arctic Gas Pipe Dream - The American Prospect
Alaska LNG is an instructive failure in political imagination.
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Faced with a slow-motion ecological crisis at an Alaska-sized scale, politicians from Juneau to Washington are stuck in the mud of a tedious old dream: Alaska LNG. @hannahstoryb.bsky.social digs into the failure of imagination (and billions in subsidies) buoying this boondoggle for @prospect.org.
Lessons From an Arctic Gas Pipe Dream - The American Prospect
Alaska LNG is an instructive failure in political imagination.
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Big Darby has pristine water and is home to more than 100 fish and 44 mussel species, including 38 species listed as endangered or rare. Wrong place for a data center, Karis Cold. @nathanhart.dispatch.com @dispatch.com MSN: bit.ly/4vHJI1p @ccbecker271.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social
Massive heat dome will blanket the Midwest in time for July 4 celebration. Doyle Rice @usatoday.com: bit.ly/4eL2MVc President's claim U.S. is the "hottest" country just may come true. But not the way he thinks. We can't "drill baby, drill" and not suffer for it. @berniemoreno.bsky.social
Huge heat dome is building over US. Here's your forecast
Intense heat is on the way for more than half of the country, just in time for the second week of summer.
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Ohio EPA monitoring of Cheyenne Resources coal mine to send water discharge reports was automatic emails. @jasonsalley.bsky.social The Fallout Files: bit.ly/4uRUfFS Lax water monitoring isn't environmental protection; it's permission to pollute. @drpeggy70.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social
Ohio EPA issues second violation notice to Ohio mining company over months of missing pollution reports
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has issued a second Notice of Violation to Cheyenne Resources Ohio, LLC, alleging the company failed to submit months of required discharge monitoring reports ...
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If we’re serious about health and climate, we can’t ignore plastics. GASLIT points to what needs to change: phase out single-use, end subsidies that prop up petrochemical + plastic production, and support reuse. 🤨 What’s the most pointless single-use plastic you see all the time?
@janefonda.com + Alec Baldwin hit the carpet at the NYC premiere of GASLIT. 🔥 GASLIT follows Jane Fonda on a road trip through Texas oil fields and Gulf Coast communities, meeting people taking on the fossil fuel boom. Now playing in select theaters with special-guest Q&As. 🎟️: gaslitdoc.com/watch
GASLIT is coming to Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market with Q&A screenings. Each night brings intimate, powerful conversations. Come see the on-the-ground story of fossil fuel expansion — then stay for the conversation about what we do with what we’ve seen. 🎟️: angelikafilmcenter.com/dc/movies/de...
.@saveohioparks.bsky.social knows you have opinions. It's time to act on them. Sign up to help lobby Ohio lawmakers on energy issues essential for clean air, water, protecting Ohio public lands. Training provided: bit.ly/4tMarsK @drpeggy70.bsky.social @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social
Lobby Day
Lobby Day Thursday May 28, 2:00-4:00pmOhio Statehouse1 Capitol Sq, Columbus, OH Sign Up for Lobby Day Tell your representatives: Ohioans demand climate action! Join us for an afternoon of meetings…
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🚨🚨BREAKING: Texas community leaders are in Tokyo to file a first-of-a-kind series of coordinated complaints against the Japanese financial institutions that backed Freeport LNG, a dangerous, polluting liquified natural gas (LNG) project near their homes 🚨🚨
