Ohio's natural landsacape offers many wonders to our state's residents - and it's up to us to protect them. The OEC works to promote responsible, sustainable land use in everything from farms and agricultural practices, to use of antibiotics in livestock, to large-scale mining and nature preserve drilling.

OEC works with indurstry and lawmakers to tackle these complex issues while protecting Ohio's important natural resources.

OEC Urges Passage of PAMTA

The OEC supports proposed federal legislation, the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA), which would phase out the use of certain antibiotics important to human medicine in animal agriculture unless there is a reasonable certainty of no harm to human health due to the development of antimicrobial resistance.

Take action here to urge Senator Brown to be a co-sponsor of PAMTA

Is there a Clean Ohio Fund in your future?

Eight years ago, Ohio voters established the $400 million Clean Ohio Fund to conserve greenspace and natural areas, preserve farmland, create recreational trails, and revitalize blighted neighborhoods by cleaning up and redeveloping polluted properties (also known as "brownfields").

By the end of 2006, Clean Ohio funding had entirely been allocated to worthy projects across the state. With support from the OEC and our partners, Ohio voters voted this past November to replenish the Clean Ohio Fund with another $400 million. Using these funds, the State of Ohio will be able to award matching grants to deserving local projects in four program areas:

• greenspace conservation
• farmland preservation
• recreational trails
• brownfield revitalization

• protecting more than 26,000 acres of natural areas
• preserving more than 16,000 acres of family farms
• creating more than 200 miles of recreational trails
• cleaning up more than 140 polluted industrial brownfield sites