Two bad bills would speed up fracking of Ohio parks, squash renewable energy

Two bad bills would speed up fracking of Ohio parks, squash renewable energy

File photo of fracking pumpjacks. (Getty Images.)The Ohio legislature has a long history of kowtowing to oil and gas interests — and no pair of bills demonstrates this more thoroughly than the proposed Ohio Senate Bill 219 and Ohio Senate Bill 294.  Originating in the Senate Energy Committee, whose chair has a past career in the fracking industry, S.B. 219 would speed up the process to frack Ohio state parks and public lands, while SB 294 would …