Residents are challenging industry’s petrochemicals push into the region, and Earthjustice’s legal strategy has helped them notch an early win.

Megan Hunter, Attorney, Fossil Fuels Program, Earthjustice: “How do you protect these underground sources of drinking water if you haven’t even mapped where they’re located in the project area and examined potential migration pathways?”

Megan Hunter, Attorney, Fossil Fuels Program, Earthjustice: “How do you protect these underground sources of drinking water if you haven’t even mapped where they’re located in the project area and examined potential migration pathways?”

Relators seek a writ of mandamus to compel Respondents, officers within the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (“ODNR”), to vacate, invalidate, or otherwise cancel the three drilling permits that Respondents issued to Powhatan Salt Company to drill new solution mining wells in Salem Township, Monroe County, Ohio.

ODNR violated state regulations and the federal Safe Drinking Water Act

A coalition of clean water advocates represented by Earthjustice — Buckeye Environmental Network, Concerned Ohio River Residents, Freshwater Accountability Project, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and the Sierra Club — successfully sued the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for issuing permits to build three solution mining wells without public notice or comment or preparing a draft…

Letter on Powhatan Salt Company Permit Applications

In a letter to the ODNR Director, groups highlight Powhatan Salt Company’s severe deficiencies in their proposal to develop hazardous liquid storage next to Ohio River

A report by the Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy reviewing the Powhatan Salt Company’s revised permit applications.

In a victory for clean water advocates, Ohio Department of Natural Resources cancels permits to construct three solution mining wells in the Ohio River Valley