The environmental justice organization Buckeye Environmental Network has sued the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) over its approval of two new oil and gas waste injection wells that would be built less than 2 miles from a city’s drinking water source.
The lawsuit, filed in the Franklin County 10th District Court of Appeals on November 7, challenged the ODNR’s approval of the permits for DeepRock Disposal Solutions’ Stephan Number 1 and American Growers Number 4 wells, which Buckeye Environmental Network said in a news release would “inject millions of gallons of toxic and radioactive oil and gas waste into underground formations.”
The organization challenged the move, arguing that the department had approved the permits under old, expired rules that have since been replaced by a 2022 rule…