Left unchecked, extractive activities including large-scale mining, drilling, landfills, logging, and Industrilized farming operations can pose threats to Ohio’s landscape and natural resources. No other environmental organization has the experience and expertise of working with legislators and the media on complex issues that affect Ohio’s landscape as does the OEC.
Is there a Clean Ohio Fund in your future?
Could Ohio benefit from $400 million for land and water conservation? Governor Strickland, General Assembly legislative leaders, and the OEC think so!
Approved by Ohio voters, the State of Ohio will now be able to borrow and spend $400 million to preserve greenspace and farmland, build recreational trails, and put polluted old industrial sites back into productive use.
Thanks to efforts of the OEC and our partners, the Clean Ohio Fund passed on November 4, 2008!
To learn more about the details of the Clean Ohio Fund:
Governor Strickland, Senate President Bill Harris, House Speaker Jon Husted and Lt. Governor Lee Fisher join hands in support of Clean Ohio at the Statehouse on July 31.
OEC applauds FDA
ban on use of antibiotic in poultry production
The OEC celebrated a huge win after a
nearly five-year battle to ban the use of fluoroquinolone, a powerful and
medically-important antibiotic, in poultry production.
For decades, factory farms routinely have
administered fluoroquinolones via water to entire flocks
of poultry when just a few birds showed signs of illness.
Research confirmed that this practice accelerated the development
of potentially-deadly, antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
After unsuccessful legal appeals by drug
maker Bayer, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s
ban on the use of fluoroquinolones in poultry took effect
September 12, 2005.
The OEC and our partners at Keep
Antibiotics Working continue to work on this critical human
health issue. Next step: support the Preservation of Antibiotics
for Medical Treatment Act. Sponsored by Ohio Congressman
Sherrod Brown, the bill would phase-out seven medically
important antibiotics as livestock feed additives, thus
protecting the arsenal of medications for human medicine.
Could Ohio benefit from $400 million for land and water conservation? Governor Strickland, General Assembly legislative leaders, and the OEC think so!
