Chris Welter
Chris 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 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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Ohio added 879 new jobs in the solar energy industry in 2021. -
The Great Council State Park in between Yellow Springs and Xenia will feature an interpretive center that will tell stories of the Shawnee's past, present and future.
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John Navarro, with the Ohio Division of Wildlife, said the discovery means water quality in the Ohio River may be improving.
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Midwest farmers both embrace and reject large solar power developments on farmland. Some make far more money leasing land than growing crops. Others worry about taking good land out of production.
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James R. Willis says in an interview that the officers involved should have been better trained to understand the limits on their authority.
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The local police union says the officers followed procedure during the incident.
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There are only two operational utility-scale solar farms in Ohio, but dozens more are in the pipeline.
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Since the Biden administration took office last month, there is renewed hope among environmental groups that increased federal regulation is coming.
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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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Over the weekend, the Ohio Investigative Unit cited several bars for violating the state's emergency COVID-19 rule banning the sale of alcohol after 10...
