Category: Ohio
Seneca County health board trying to again deny WIN Waste operating permit
FOSTORIA — The Seneca County Board of Health is once again trying to keep WIN Waste Innovations of Seneca County from having a valid license to operate the company’s massive landfill on the outskirts of Fostoria.
Saving the iconic American chestnut tree is 'not a lost cause'
More than 120 years after an Asian blight, or fungus, made its way to North America and began obliterating iconic American chestnut trees, scientists are still hoping they can eventually restore them in northwest Ohio and other parts of the Eastern United States where they once flourished.
1 year later, offshore wind power in the Great Lakes remains just an aspiration for some
One year after the proposed Icebreaker Wind demonstration project in Lake Erie got shelved, there continues to be talk — but little movement — toward erecting commercial-scale offshore wind turbines in the Great Lakes.
Great Lakes group CEO urges people not to panic about likely environmental rollbacks
Joel Brammeier has two words for those feeling anxiety about what’s in store for the Great Lakes during the incoming Trump administration:
Future of salmon-rearing project in Pioneer murky as AquaBounty shuts down its last production facility
PIONEER, Ohio — A tiny Williams County village near the Ohio-Indiana-Michigan border soon hopes to learn what will happen to land inside its industrial park where a company had aspirations of building America’s largest indoor salmon-rearing facility.
Environmental groups ask judge to accept them as co-plaintiffs in major Lake Erie case
The landmark Lake Erie case in federal court could be expanded again.
Hunters can support food banks across the state by donating deer
Donated venison from Ohio hunters can support local food banks under a program run by Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry.
Drought lingers across Ohio and other parts of the region, impacting crop yields
What began as a potential record-setting year for corn and soybean yields became a miserable one for much of Ohio because of persistently hot and dry conditions.
Howard Collier State Nature Preserve is added to Old-Growth Forest Network
TIFFIN — The 115-acre Howard Collier State Nature Preserve in Seneca County was inducted into the Old-Growth Forest Network on Monday, the 34th forest in Ohio to receive such a designation and the first in Seneca County.
Old growth forests can be found right here in Ohio
Believe it or not, you don’t have to travel out West to see an Old Growth Forest.