South Australia reports a new record of 155.3% of its energy created by the sun. @reneweconomy.com.au: bit.ly/3VtNVp6 @democrats.org-- ignite youth, minority, family, union and environmentalist votes with a strong stance on climate change. @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social @repemiliasykes.bsky.social

Our guess? #Petrostate

It's a great day to learn about cheap, reliable solar energy for your home or business. Why frack our beloved state parks and wildlife areas when we can use no-emissions, renewable energy? #SunDayofAction @daytondailynews.com @sarahedon.bsky.social @ideastream1.bsky.social

Attend Sun Day events today in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Middlefield, Yellow Springs, Athens to learn about cheap, reliable solar power to save our parks, environment and planet. @saveohioparks.bsky.social co-sponsors. @cleveland.com @daytondailynews.com @thirdactoh.bsky.social

Climate advocate @senwhitehouse.bsky.social announces federal probe on who pushed Trump and @leemzeldin.bsky.social to rescind 2009 basis we use to protect the public and environment from greenhouse gases. @insideclimatenews.org: bit.ly/42q0jdJ @commoncauseohio.bsky.social @acluohio.bsky.social

Apparently judges didn't consider Gov. DeWine's unpopular oil and gas fracking expansion under state parks and wildlife areas. @jpelzer.bsky.social @cleveland.com: bit.ly/4nzBZOs @jbalmert.bsky.social @kmkowalski.bsky.social @sarahedon.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social

Children testify at EPA endangerment hearing at the U.S. Capitol. @insideclimatenews.org : bit.ly/4pClSla Plan responsibly for a livable planet, not just for today. @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social @repemiliasykes.bsky.social @whitehouse.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov

@oceanaph.bsky.social creates 200-mile ocean sanctuary where coral reefs remain pristine and most likely to survive. @insideclimatenews.org : bit.ly/4ncIjvB Why doesn't the U.S. protect its reefs? @cleanairmoms-oh.bsky.social @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social @scrippsocean.bsky.social

Way to go Marietta. Next Cambridge? Coshocton? Who else wants to protect their citizens?

Marietta council forms task force to consider suing ODNR for injection well approval. Marietta Times: bit.ly/46dPb5Y Kudos to @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social for educating on harms of toxic, radioactive wastewater brine migration. @signalohio.bsky.social @kmkowalski.bsky.social @sarahedon.bsky.social

Marietta city council forms committee to fight Ohio DNR injection well approval. Gwen Sour for Marietta Times: bit.ly/46dPb5Y Kudos to @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social for educating officials on harms of toxic, radioactive wastewater brine migration. @earthjustice.org @ssteingraber1.bsky.social

Activist @jasonsalley.bsky.social tells Chillicothe council his health-conscious uncle died of COPD. Did exposure to benzene, teflon, and other chemicals as a Wear-Ever/Howmet worker make him sick? Scioto Post: bit.ly/4ptr9LG @dispatch.com @kmkowalski.bsky.social @sarahedon.bsky.social

Think fossil fuels could compete against solar in a truly fair energy market? Subsidies have likely doubled since 2017, says @priceofoil.bsky.social. @theguardian.com: bit.ly/46wmMa1 @occ4consumers.bsky.social @kentksmith.bsky.social @signalohio.bsky.social @dispatch.com

And people are worried about fluoride?

If Ohio had fair voting districts, we would not be fracking under state parks and public lands. We'd be embracing renewable energy, not quashing it, and creating thousands of good-paying jobs. @jobsohio.bsky.social @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social @vivekramaswarmy.bsky.social

Ready to be the change you want to see in the world? Join @saveohioparks.bsky.social and help us protect and preserve Ohio state parks and public lands from oil and natural gas fracking. Sign up now! @drpeggy70.bsky.social @614magazine.bsky.social @columbusfreepress.bsky.social

Learn how you can tap into the world's cheapest, most plentiful power source-- solar!--at Sun Day this weekend. Six Ohio locations. Sign up-- or just stop in! @917wvxu.bsky.social @occ4consumers.bsky.social @poweracleanfuture.bsky.social @cleanairmoms-oh.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social

First Universalist Unitarian Society of Marietta spread the facts about fracking at the recent Washington County Fair. Residents worry toxic, radioactive wastewater brine could migrate into drinking water if ODNR and Ohio EPA approve two more Deeprock injection wells. @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social

Ohio: In a functioning democracy, you don't cheat voters by increasing gerrymandering or send unneeded National Guardsmen to other states. @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/4pous6N Or frack state parks and public lands. @ohiocitizen.org @columbusfreepress.bsky.social @dispatch.com

Rural Chauncey in Athens County prepares for river and flash flooding as strong rains and catastrophic floods increase from climate change. FEMA maps are historic, inadequate for today. @insideclimatenews.org : bit.ly/3K0wABH @signalohio.bsky.social @canarymedia.com @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social

Parts of fracked Carroll, Columbiana and Jefferson counties are in severe droughts, acc. to U.S. Drought Monitor. See where your county stands on rain: bit.ly/4mpu9pM Is Ohio selling water to frackers when we need it for irrigation and drinking water? @canarymedia.com @ohiocapitaljournal.com

Nestled into Ohio energy law H.B. 15 is a school energy fund providing 2% loans for schools to install solar. PV Magazine USA: bit.ly/4nAhbXe Think global. Act local. Save our public lands from fracking by using solar wherever possible. @ohiocapitaljournal.com @butlercountydemsoh.bsky.social

Tonight!

Everyone wants clean air, water and pristine parks. @saveohioparks.bsky.social educated Ohioans on the left and right about fracking, Sun Day and the Great Ohio Climate March at Paw Paw Festival in Athens. @thirdactoh.bsky.social @ohiocitizen.org @signalohio.bsky.social @canarymedia.com

Florida home insurance rates skyrocket from extreme weather events caused by climate change-- and residents are cancelling. @insideclimatenews.org : bit.ly/4pmwcxh When will Ohio be hit? We need smart Ohio energy policy including renewables, not fossil fuels. @kentksmith.bsky.social

Let's look at reality, not politics. Climate change is here and it's urgent. We are at extreme risk. Ohio needs an energy policy that phases out fossil fuels now and ramps up renewables. @twrader.bsky.social @occ4consumers.bsky.social @poweracleanfuture.bsky.social @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social

Many hanks to @saveohioparks.bsky.social for their email highlighting #SunDay and pointing to each of @thirdactoh.bsky.social events across the state! Just in case it might be helpful, you can find all of them here. thirdact.org/ohio/events/

EPA surveilled #EastPalestine whistleblower as he traveled to Georgia to test for air, water, soil toxins following 2024 BioLab pool chemical explosion in Conyers. @pamelakirkland.bsky.social for GPB: bit.ly/4mhUENU @sarahedon.bsky.social @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social

U.S. largest railroads-- including @nscorp.bsky.social of #EastPalestine infamy-- fail to do the right thing and join voluntary railroad safety program after the feds cancel a working group. Morning Journal: bit.ly/47HB0Ht @jd-vance-1.bsky.social @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social

@aepnews.bsky.social wants $35M to bail them out on two failing, dirty coals plants, one in Indiana. Ohio just rescinded that HB 6 tax. @signalohio.bsky.social: bit.ly/4nqD3nO Sounds like AEP needs a SWOT analysis and some turnaround management. @dispatch.com @crainscleveland.bsky.social

An Illinois man develops a well-funded and thoughtfully-implemented state program to foster a robust transition to renewables--starting at the local level. @canarymedia.com : bit.ly/47G4DJ3 All politics is local. We can do it, Ohio. @poweracleanfuture.bsky.social @kentksmith.bsky.social

How much will Trump energy policy set us back on mitigating climate change? Comparison: His policy to Biden easing greenhouse gas emissions for Paris Agreement of 1.5° warming. @canarymedia.com: bit.ly/4nwkSwZ @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @neosierraclub.bsky.social @butlercountydemsoh.bsky.social

Data centers consumed 17.4 B gallons of water in 2023; use could double by 2028. Alliance for the Great Lakes worries U.S. states could negatively impact lakes' levels. Devin Nunnari/Burning River: bit.ly/48gTuP3 @drpeggy70.bsky.social @sarahedon.bsky.social @devinnunnari.bsky.social

In 2024, Gov. Mike DeWine promised redistricting reform. He backs away from it now. @jpelzer.bsky.social @cleveland.com: bit.ly/3IjX00z He promised to "do something" about gun violence after 2019 Dayton mass shooting. And promised Ohioans "no surface effects" from fracking. @daytondailynews.com

Land gift protects 3,000 acres as Joy Valley Nature Preserve in Athens, Morgan counties. Erin Gottsacker in The Ohio Newsroom: bit.ly/4pjFf2d This is conservation as Ohio wants and deserves it, not the fracking of public lands. @jbalmert.bsky.social @signalohio.bsky.social @canarymedia.com

U.S. federal govt props up gas & oil with direct subsidy of $40M this year, plus $2B in annual perks, says @priceofoil.bsky.social @commondreams.org: bit.ly/4ggFoiE Fracking colonizes Ohio while we pay for bad energy policy. @fractracker.bsky.social @signalohio.bsky.social @canarymedia.com

Marietta City Council to consider lawsuit Sept. 18 to force Ohio DNR to use current rules when considering Class ll injection well application for Deeprock Disposal Solutions. @wtap.com: bit.ly/4mfUmae @earthjustice.org @kentksmith.bsky.social @kmkowalski.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social

Lots of questions, no good answers from Ohio EPA meeting in Marietta on Class l injection well Deeprock Disposal Solutions wants. More than 200 estimated in attendance. @wtap.com: bit.ly/46xQRHm @dispatch.com @ohiocapitaljournal.com @canarymedia.com @signalohio.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social

[email protected] question for Ohio EPA: If Marietta water supply is contaminated by gas & oil waste brine migrating into its drinking water supply, who is responsible? Deeprock, feds, or state? Who will pay to replace it? @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social @kmkowalski.bsky.social

ICYMI: Two PA towns have had contaminated water for 3 years from gas and oil waste storage operations. Jon Hurdle for @insideclimatenews.org : bit.ly/4gg3c6x It can happen in Ohio. Will it? @kentksmith.bsky.social @occ4consumers.bsky.social @canarymedia.com @sarahedon.bsky.social

Plans to fight climate change by manipulating the Arctic and Antarctic environment are dangerous, unlikely to work and could distract from the need to ditch fossil fuels, dozens of polar scientists have warned.

“Early in the process:" 100 citizens attend Ohio EPA hearing in Marietta as official fields questions about yet another injection well approval for area w/ 18 wells already. Marietta Times: bit.ly/4nfyEod @oilandgaswatch.bsky.social @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social

Citizens of two PA towns have had contaminated water from fracking for 3 years. Conversation shifted from accountability to providing public water to make taxpayers pay for it. @insideclimatenews.org : bit.ly/4gg3c6x @signalohio.bsky.social @canarymedia.com @ohiocapitaljournal.com @dispatch.com

Looks like injection wells are Ohio oil and gas' Achilles Heel. @signalohio.bsky.social : bit.ly/4m71Qfu If the state of Ohio can't safely store toxic, radioactive oil and gas waste brine, why allow fracking under state parks and public lands? @kentksmith.bsky.social @ssteingraber1.bsky.social

We appreciate it when you Like us. Thank you for that. Please retweet @saveohioparks.bsky.social posts to your social media networks, too. Help us spread the facts about fracking under our state parks and public lands to all Ohioans. @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/47XOxui

Solar is the energy of the future, not fossil fuels. Learn the 5Ws of solar at these Sun Day events Sept. 21-- at 6 Ohio locations! @kentksmith.bsky.social @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social @ohdems.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social @butlercountydemsoh.bsky.social

Trump and minions have enriched themselves by stripping the state that better women and men built decades before us. @billmckibben.bsky.social on our new U.S. role as a "gas station pretending to be a country." bit.ly/47zp0HW @columbusfreepress.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social @dispatch.com

Extrajudicial boat passengers killing in intl waters ignites social media firestorm pitting GOP against @jd-vance-1.bsky.social and @berniemoreno.bsky.social. bit.ly/3JRZK5U The same people push fracking as the world faces climate crisis. @commoncauseohio.bsky.social @acluohio.bsky.social

Tonight at 6 p.m. is an Ohio EPA hearing in Marietta for yet another injection well. Citizens are concerned about frack wastewater brine migration and drinking water quality. Bev Reed @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social for Marietta Times: bit.ly/4n4a9Kc @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social @ohiocitizen.org