RECENT NEWS
Open Letter to Ohio Health Dept. Requesting Urgent Attention
Occupational Safety and Health Administration Columbus Area Office 200 North High Street, Room 620 Columbus, OH 43215 February 9, 2021 To Whom It May Concern, As concerned residents, former industry workers, scientists, journalists, and researchers who have...
Community Science Success!
Thanks to the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies for funding a Community Science project for the Appalachian Petrochemical Protection, FreshWater Accountability Project made great progress over the last year to purchase and install low-cost air monitoring...
FreshWater Joins Forces to Oppose Mountaineer Natural Gas Liquids Storage Caverns on Ohio River
Concerned Ohio River Residents P.O. Box 135 Bridgeport, OH 43912FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jill Hunkler, CORR Advocate, (740) 238-1256, jahhunkler@gmail.com Megan Hunter, Attorney, (312) 800-8331,mhunter@earthjustice.orgGroups Challenge Deficient Applications to...
Army Corps Permits for Barge Docks to Bring Oil and Gas Waste to Ohio Challenged
(Akron, OH) Last week, two complaints challenging the US Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Section 10 Permits for barge unloading docks on the Ohio River to service frack waste processing and disposal facilities were challenged by Fair Shake Environmental Legal...
The MWCD must stop leasing our precious reservoirs to be fracked and stop selling our water to be destroyed.
Better Vision
A Better Vision for the Valley was an inspirational conference organized by FreshWater Accountability Project and attended by many residents from the Ohio Valley, as well as representatives from numerous environmental groups.
Fracking Violates Human Rights
FWAP provides testimony to the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, a respected international human-rights court, the Rome-based Tribunal, began a week-long hearing on the impacts of fracking and climate change on human and Earth rights.
Letter to Gov. DeWine
Click here to view the letter we sent to Governor DeWine to cease permitting until regulatory deficiencies are reviewed. You may use our letter as reference when writing to your elected officials to express your concerns.
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We’re so glad that you are here. These are trying times for our environment, but we believe if we work together we can make a big difference for our community, and our world! For years we have challenged industry intent on polluting our freshwater resources and raised awareness around the many threats to our environment, especially our freshwater resources.