COLUMBUS (FOX19) - The Ohio House of Representatives today voted to pass Substitute House Bill 133, which would create an Oil and Gas Leasing Commission and establishes a procedure by which the commission may enter into leases for oil and gas production on land owned by or under the control of a state agency.

The bill found two local representatives on opposite sides of the issue.  State Representative Denise Driehaus (D-Price Hill) voted against House Bill 133.

“Our predecessors had the foresight to set aside and invest in lands for public park use.  Investments were made then, and have been made since, to ensure that the public park system in Ohio would thrive into the future.  These individuals understood the value of parks, both from an environmental and an economic stand point.  Superior parks improve the quality of life in Ohio and in turn help drive economic growth.

As a member of the Cincinnati Recreation System for 16 years, I was pe

CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - Reds players Jay Bruce, Drew Stubbs and Ryan Hanigan and Players for the Planet have joined forces with Global Environmental Services and many of Cincinnati’s leading corporations for the second annual PNC/Players for the Planet E-Waste Recycling Drives.

The PNC/Players for the Planet E-Waste Recycling Drives

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - While Japan worries about the state of nuclear reactors in the zone that was struck by last week's earthquake, Cincinnati has two reasons not to worry about such a situation in the near future.

The obvious reason is the lack of recorded earthquake activity in this region.  Another is that there are no nuclear power plants anywhere near the Tri-State area.

If you drew a line from Fountain Square to the nearest commercial nuclear power plant, that line would end 188 miles away at the Davis-Besse power plant on the shores of Lake Erie east of Toledo.

40 years, ago, planners expected that three nuclear power reactors would be within 60 miles of downtown, but the two projects that were planned to contain those reactors both were cancelled well into contruction.

The better known of these was the William Zimmer plant in Moscow, on the Ohio River in Clermont County.  The plant was under construction for a dozen years, until construc