Ohio’s 2026 governor race: Where the candidates stand on fracking
Ramaswamy touts a 15,000-acre fracking approval on public land while Acton and Kissick back a Washington County injection well moratorium over water contamination fears.
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What’s going on with your power bill and what Ohio’s candidates for governor will do about it
A former PUCO commissioner calls Ramaswamy's free-power pledge doomed to fail, while a consumer advocate says $10 billion in transmission costs go unreviewed.
Diesel prices shoot upward as top farm-state GOP senator begs Trump for export embargo
The White House rejects Grassley's embargo request as Trump blames Russia's war for the price spike and seven House Republicans defect on Iran authorization.
Trump likes data centers. Congress seems stuck. The midterms could deliver a verdict.
A poll shows just 11% of Americans back local data centers, as Trump attacks critics and Senate Democrats block Husted's ratepayer bill.
Worker files lawsuit one year after orphan well explosion in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest
ODNR's investigation blamed Monroe Drilling for improper well control barriers on the unplugged well that killed two contractors and burned Chazz Bates.
Developer behind proposed Portage County data center gave Heidi Workman $6,589 eight days before panel appointment
Conrad Geis made Workman’s second-largest campaign contribution after his company sought to lift a Shalersville moratorium so it could market land for data centers.
Husted took $630K from data center interests
Husted personally championed a sales tax exemption that helped bring a Google data center to New Albany, and his top aide has taken $94,000 in donations.
FirstEnergy wants rate hike as consumers in Ohio face record prices
Consumer advocates say the utility tied to the state’s largest public corruption case needs to rebuild trust and be held accountable.
Households face higher heating bills this winter amid rising electricity and oil costs
Home heating costs are anticipated to rise by almost 9% this winter, according to a recent analysis.
Ohio now has over 125 active moratoriums on data centers. See where they are.
A BGSU poll finds 78% of Ohioans back the pauses, as developers sue Urbana, Lordstown and other cities over shifting local rules.
2,776 acres of Ohio’s Wayne National Forest leased for more than $11 million for fracking
Ohio Environmental Council attorney Nathan Johnson says the sale violates environmental law and is preparing a federal court challenge over the first Wayne lease sale since 2017.
Fracking industry pays $11 million for first leases in Ohio’s only national forest
Five out-of-state gas companies win rights to drill under 2,800 acres of the Wayne National Forest, achieving a long-sought goal for the industry.
Fed raises interest rates for first time in 3 years, battling persistent inflation
Trump blasted the quarter-point hike as gas hit $4.37 a gallon amid the Iran war, while Fed Chair Warsh insisted the central bank stays in its own lane.
More GOP lawmakers break with Trump on Iran as gas prices keep climbing
Diesel hit a record $6.31 a gallon as Iowa Republicans Nunn and Miller-Meeks, both in toss-up races, voted to curb Trump's war powers for the first time.
Prices continue to rise despite Trump’s promises to end inflation
Gas prices jumped 38% since Trump took office and 95% of Americans say they face an affordability crisis, a recent poll found.
Amy Acton pledges no individual stocks as governor, challenges Ramaswamy to sell data-center holdings
Ramaswamy has not said whether he will divest from NVIDIA, Microsoft and Amazon holdings after softening his earlier praise for Ohio's data-center boom.
Trump EPA to strip greenhouse gas limits for power plants, a key Biden climate policy
Sen. Whitehouse warns the rollback could push more states to impose their own emissions limits, while Evergreen Action disputes EPA's no-climate-impact claim.
Coal-to-solar project lands a rare clean-energy win in Ohio
A new state law and reclaimed mine land helped the Vinton County project avoid the local opposition that has blocked other Ohio solar farms under a 2021 statute.
Data centers are on the November ballot in these 18 Ohio communities
One petition organizer in Piqua turned health fears from a battery plant into a mayoral recall bid after Meta proposed a 1,400-megawatt facility there.
Wood County residents rally against Jon Husted as $800 million Meta data center rises near Bowling Green
The Republican senator spent years championing Ohio’s data center buildout. At a Bowling Green rally this week, residents pointed to rising electric bills and accused Husted of helping create a problem he is now trying to rein in.
