#ohio news

[mai-komagata]

ohio removed 160000 inactive voter registrations

Search for yourself here: https://registrationreadiness.ohiosos.gov Voter registration:

ETA: jul 22 is the deadline to fix your registration. BUT YOU CAN REREGISTER UNTIL OCT 7.

[relaxedstyles]

[destielmemenews]

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[katrinascottsblog]

I’m out here to try out to see how it goes 👍❤️

[mysharona1987]

[jilllovesmike]

Mike in Ohio 18 hrs ago. He is happy. That is all that matters.

[nando161mando]

[unofficial-project-2025]

Quick reminder for everyone

Please mmake sure to register to vote for this year, and tell everyone to do the same!

Yes, Kamala has become more popular in the polls, but we still need to vote for her to win!

So tell everyone to register, check your registration regularly to make sure it's not been suspended/purged, and reblog this post to spread the information!

[emomosquito]

Just wanted to come on here as an Ohioan and tell you all that apparently lines are out the door at hatian restaurants in Springfield as locals flock to support them right now. Have a few people I know saying this on local Facebook groups :)

[blk-ink-pen]

To the Black people joking about Haitians eating cats in Ohio, you realize if they put me and you in front of a white supremacist and asked them to pick the Haitian, they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between us, right?

[mizup1forlife]

oliver👍

[avaterpat]

Happy RED FRIDAY 🇺🇸🇺🇸

Remember everyone deployed 💬🇺🇸

[pluckywallflower]

If you are in Ohio, contact your rep for the Ohio House of Representatives

HB 636 is In Committee right now which would guarantee same sex marriage rights in Ohio

We need this in case the Supreme Court overturns Obergefell v. Hodges

Contact your rep and tell them to support it!!

Ohio House.gov

[katrinascottsblog]

Another bored Monday 👍 🛑😎

[anarchywoofwoof]

sigh. i'm going to regret looking into this, aren't i?

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Five companies have agreed to pay the federal government more than $7.2 million overall to resolve claims stemming from longstanding pollution in two adjacent creeks in the Maumee River watershed in northwestern Ohio. The settlement with Ohio Refining Co., Chevron USA, Energy Transfer LLC, Pilkington North America and Chemtrade Logistics was announced Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice. Officials said a federal judge must approve the deal before it takes effect. According to a complaint, the companies are liable for historic industrial discharges of oil or hazardous substances at the Duck & Otter Creeks site near Toledo. The site is just east of the Maumee River and encompasses the creeks, adjoining wetlands, floodplain areas and uplands. The two creeks flow into Maumee Bay in Lake Erie and provide key habitats for migratory birds and fish, and also support hunting and fishing activities for local residents, according to federal wildlife officials.

so before i do anything else, let me establish: when the AP says "near Toledo" they mean basically right in the middle of Toledo, Ohio (pop. 268,000~)

anyway, the AP article doesn't really elaborate on this, but we're talking pollution involving oil and discharge of cancer-causing polycyclic hydrocarbons (PAHs), arsenic and lead. cancer rates in this part of Ohio are relatively high, especially in neighboring Ottawa County. as a whole, cancer rates in Ohio have been on a steady incline over the last 2 decades.

back to the price being paid by these five companies highlighted above in red. that's really what i wanted to focus on here, because as we know, fines aren't actual enforcement of the law or justice. it is a cost of doing business for most companies.

so what is the true cost and how much are these energy companies gonna feel the impact to their bottom line?

Ohio Refining Co took some digging to find. according to this EPA documentation, it turns out that the parent company for Ohio Refining Co is - surprise! - BP-Husky Refining LLC. yes, that BP! in case you needed the reminder, they made $80.431 billion over the last 12 months.

we all know about Chevron. i mean fuck, they have an entire "Criticism of Chevron" wikipedia page dedicated to their bullshit. so i'll just throw out the numbers for this soul sucking corporation: $36.5 billion in profit for 2022.

next up we have Energy Transfer LLC. wait a second.... where do i know that name? oh yeah.

and they take home about $78.555 billion in revenue annually.

as it turns out, Pilkington North America is actually a subsidiary of a Japanese company - Nippon Sheet Glass. if my math is right, their annual revenue is around $5 billion USD.

lastly we have Chemtrade Logistics - a relative small fry - who boasts an annual revenue of $1.88 billion.

in case you weren't keeping up at home, these five companies have a combined annual revenue of $202 billion. their fine is $7.2 million.

with an annual revenue of $202 billion, that would mean that these five companies are making an average of $553 million every single day. this isn't even a drop in the bucket. this is barely 1% of one day's earnings for these companies. and at what cost to human health and safety?