ICN Ohio

The Barely Recognizable J.D. Vance as Trump’s Vice Presidential Running Mate

Inside Climate News staff writer Dan Gearino, who lives in Columbus, Ohio, wonders what happened to the “Hillbilly Elegy” author and “public intellectual” who once touted “a climate problem in our society.”

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

NTSB Says Norfolk Southern Threatened Staff as They Investigated the East Palestine Derailment

By Kiley Bense

Ohio and Pennsylvania Residents Affected by the East Palestine Train Derailment Say Their ‘Basic Needs’ Are Still Not Being Met

By Kiley Bense

A Debate Rages Over the Putative Environmental Benefits of the ARCH2 ‘Hydrogen Hub’ in Appalachia

By Jon Hurdle

Ohio Solar Mounts a Comeback in the Face of a Campaign Whose Alleged Villains Include China and Bill Gates

By Dan Gearino

Clean Energy Is Driving ‘a New Era in American Manufacturing’ Across the Midwest

By Kristoffer Tigue

How Shadowy Corporations, Secret Deals and False Promises Keep Retired Coal Plants From Being Redeveloped

By Daniel Propp

‘Truth, Reckoning and Right Relationship’: A Rights of Nature Epiphany

By Katie Surma

New EPA Rule Could Accelerate Cleanup of Coal Ash Dumps

By Daniel Propp

Q&A: The Outsized Climate and Environmental Impacts of Ohio’s 2024 Senate Race

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Accidents Involving Toxic Vinyl Chloride Are Commonplace, a New Report Finds

By Kiley Bense

Fighting for a Foothold in American Law, the Rights of Nature Movement Finds New Possibilities in a Change of Venue: the Arts

By Katie Surma

A Plant Proposed in Youngstown, Ohio, Would Have Turned Tons of Tires Into Synthetic Gas. Local Officials Said Not So Fast

By James Bruggers

EPA Begins a Review Process That Could Bring an End to Toxic, Flammable Vinyl Chloride

By Kiley Bense

We Went to the First EV Charging Station Funded by the Federal Infrastructure Law

By Dan Gearino

From Fracked Gas in Pennsylvania to Toxic Waste in Texas, Tracking Vinyl Chloride Production in the U.S.

By Kiley Bense

Cleveland Resilience Projects Could Boost Communities’ Access to Water and Green Spaces

By Kathiann M. Kowalski

What Happened to the Great Lakes Offshore Wind Boom?

By Nicole Pollack

A Train Derailment Spilled Toxic Chemicals in her Ohio Town. Then She Ran for Mayor

By Jessica Kutz, The 19th