Pollution

A National Weather Service meteorologist expects conditions to improve beginning Friday night.

The Ohio EPA is asking the owners of the Everwear plant to replace wells that regulate toxic underground plume beneath the city of Chillicothe. The nearby Pixelle paper mill closing not only leaves hundreds of people without jobs, but also presents a challenge to future containment of the chemicals.

Crews have been tunneling adjacent to the Olentangy River to make the 3-mile sewer overflow tunnel since March 2023. The project will help ensure sewer overflow during increasingly common severe storms doesn't pollute the river.

The plight of the river, which empties into Lake Erie at Cleveland, helped inspire the Clean Water Act. Now it attracts kayakers and anglers and could soon be removed from an EPA watchlist.

Pollution, caused by abandoned mines, is hurting Ohio’s small streams. A local nonprofit is combining science and art to solve the problem.

The city of Dayton is threatening to sue Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the Department of Defense over forever chemicals in the city's drinking water.

This episode originally aired on May 6, 2020.The Trump administration has continued to weaken air pollution regulations despite warnings that long-term…

The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission has received a federal grant money to clean up the former location of Westland Mall. After decades of neglect,…

This episode originally aired on May 6, 2020.The Trump administration has continued to weaken air pollution regulations despite warnings that long-term…

Ohio lawmakers are considering a pair of Republican-backed bills that would toss out current and future bans on single-use plastic bags passed by local…