COLUMBUS — Rules regulating oil and gas well construction, water handling, and the disclosure of chemicals used in drilling cleared final legislative hurdles Thursday before heading to Gov. John Kasich.
COLUMBUS — Environmental advocates were among dozens of witnesses lining up to testify Monday on a bill laying out Ohio’s new regulations for horizontal shale drilling and the use of renewable energy.
COLUMBUS — An Ohio legislative panel approved new rules Monday for the construction of oil and gas drilling wells, amid an underground shale exploration boom in the state.
While tapping the Utica Shale that much of Delaware County sits atop of could create riches for residents, the process is also fraught with environmental risks.
HANFORD, Calif. — The discovery of mad cow disease in a dead dairy cow came soon after it arrived at a non-descript building in the heart of California’s dairy country. The finding, announced Tuesday, is the first new case of the disease in the U.S. since 2006 and the fourth ever discovered in the country. The test was performed when the animal was brought to the building, a transfer facility for a processing plant near Hanford.
About 98 percent of the cosmos is composed of the two simplest elements, hydrogen and helium, mostly in the form of giant gas clouds and stars.
COLUMBUS — A state natural resource agency’s proposed rules for drilling in state parks would require natural gas and oil companies to stay at least 300 feet — the length of a football field — from campgrounds, certain waterways and sites deemed historically or archaeologically valuable.
ATLANTA — More than $1 billion has been spent over the past decade researching autism. In some ways, the search for its causes looks like a long-running fishing expedition, with a focus on everything from genetics to the age of the father, the weight of the mother, and how close a child lives to a freeway.