Ohio EPA

The Clark County village is building a new $10 million public water system and tower, with financial support from the Ohio EPA.

The Oct. 14 ruling should preserve the 50-year-old rule Ohioans have used to hold air polluters accountable, called the air nuisance rule.

According to the Ohio EPA, the company “meets state and federal rules and regulations that protect human health and the environment” to be issued a new air permit, despite an air violation weeks before its approval.

The state will use $13 million from a PFAS contamination settlement to help fire departments, emergency management agencies and airports safely dispose of their foam.

The public can comment on a draft of an air permit for Cleveland-Cliffs to allow and regulate emissions from a proposed project in Middletown. The Ohio EPA is accepting comments until 11:59 p.m. July 18.

The opportunity for public comment on the Ohio air nuisance rule change will close on June 29.

Cleveland-Cliffs's Middletown steel mill (formerly AK Steel) was set to be transformed using over $500 million in Inflation Reduction Act funds. But its fossil-fuel burning future could instead be refurbished.

Ohio has taken nearly 14,000 gallons of the PFAS-laden firefighting foam off the hands of over 100 fire departments. And it’s using a pioneering technology called the PFAS Annihilator to help.

The lawsuit alleges the Ohio budget passed this summer unlawfully included provisions weakening legal recourse to stop air pollution.

Fewer employees, reduced Superfund site cleanup and truncated regulation enforcement are some of the ways the U.S. EPA is keeping afloat during the lapse in federal funds.

The air nuisance rule defines air pollution as a public nuisance and allows Ohioans to file federal lawsuits against companies whose emissions may jeopardize air quality.

The Tremont City Barrel Fill contains 300,000 gallons of industrial waste. Residents concerned about water contamination have been asking for remediation for decades.