Chris Welter
Environmental ReporterChris Welter is an Environmental Reporter at WYSO through Report for America. In 2017, he completed the radio training program at WYSO's Eichelberger Center for Community Voices. Prior to joining the team at WYSO, he did boots-on-the-ground conservation work and policy research on land-use issues in southwest Ohio as a Miller Fellow with the Tecumseh Land Trust.
He is a graduate of Antioch College with a self-designed B.S. in Environmental Journalism and a French Language & Culture focus. He edited The Antioch Record and later served as chair of the newspaper's advisory board. Through the college's cooperative education program, he interned with an environmental education non-profit in Ypsilanti, MI and worked as a paralegal assistant at a criminal defense firm in Chicago and a bankruptcy center in Philadelphia.
Chris is a lifelong Ohioan, born and raised in Columbus and currently living in Yellow Springs with his two cats, Beaver and Franklin. He moonlights as a mediocre disc golfer and also loves to cook, hike, and read about Ohio history.
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Since a company that runs a local biodigester stopped accepting human waste last year, the Village of Yellow Springs now disposes of their wastewater by-product differently -
Mike Fremont helped to found the Little Miami Conservancy and the statewide group Rivers Unlimited during his decades long work as a river conservationist in Ohio.
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Four Clark County residents filed a lawsuit against Enon Sand & Gravel in 2018.
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The Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid does best in grassy meadows but that habitat has been largely eradicated for farmland.
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Wright State defeated Miami University 71-47 over the weekend. Both teams are now 1-1 on the season.
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Over 100 protestors congregated outside of Gov. DeWine's home the day after he instituted a 10 p.m. curfew.
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Faith leaders, public servants and frontline workers gathered for a press conference at the Interfaith Hospitality Network in Springfield on Monday.
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Bar owner Jonathan Molnar allows patrons to use an adjoining apartment that he owns to eat and drink their to-go meals.
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Sam Randazzo resigned this morning (November 20, 2020) after the FBI raided his house on Monday.
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Close to 50 protestors braved the cold on Monday night on the road in front of Mike DeWine's Cedarville mansion in response to the state's new COVID-19 health order.
