Thursday, December 18, 2025

Two new regulations were passed in Pennsylvania in 2010.

t's hard to beat a cold glass of clear refreshing water to quench your thirst. I've been drinking a lot of water to beat the heat and I imagine you have too.

COLUMBUS -- From shale gas legal issues to enforcing the state's new Livestock Care Standards to federal and state agricultural legislation, the Nov. 18 Ohio Agricultural Law Symposium is packed with hot topics in the legal community.

Columnist and outdoors writer Mike Tontimonia takes readers along on a high country, western elk hunt.
driling rig

Ohio issued 76 unconventional well permits so far this year and Pennsylvania, 196, a sign production is continuing on a steady pace (and definitely above last year's levels).

As of June 18, 2014, drilled and producing wells were located in 16 Ohio counties.

Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director James Zehringer says everything is being done to ensure water supplies are not affected by any process of the Utica shale drilling process.
Shale gas rig

Harrison County is leading the way for the number of Utica shale permits issued in the state of Ohio.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources issued 32 new permits in January, with Columbiana County receiving nearly half the total.
natural gas rig

Shale permits plummet in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.