President signs bill barring TMDL implementation two days after EPA publishes final rule.

Nineteen Ohio counties, most of which are near Ohio’s major cities or in the Appalachian region, grew an estimated 10 percent or more between 1990 and 1998.

New Ohio law creates the ability for local or state agencies to acquire agricultural easements for the purpose of protecting productive farmland from conversion to nonagricultural use.

Independence Pipeline backers amended their original application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Well-known auctioneer Jim Baer died March 27 of an apparent heart attack.

Buckeye Egg Farm is being investigated by the Ohio Environmental Protection Service for yet another spill, this time of fuel oil.

Ohio’s greatest population growth is occurring in Brown, Clermont and Warren near Cincinnati; Delaware, Licking, Fairfield, Pickaway and Madison near Columbus; and Medina, Portage, Geauga and Ashtabula near Cleveland.

USDA’s active monitoring of flocks in Vermont since 1996 will prevent widespread contamination from TSE.

Groups across Ohio and Pennsylvania opposing the proposed Independence natural gas pipeline, are still urging landowners not to sign right-of-way easements.

Four new cases of E. coli O157:H7 were confirmed last week in Medina County.