OH Enviro Coalition Petition-Revoke ClassII Oil&Gas Injection wells from ODNR

Carolyn Harding with Shelly Corbin, Roxanne Groff & James Yskamp. Petitioners & legal counsel to Revoke Primacy of Ohio Class II oil & gas Injection Wells from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Shelly Corbin(Takóni Kókipešni) is Itazipco/Mnicoujou, Lakota and a member of the Cheyenne River Reservation. She has served over 15 years in the military and continues to serve in the Ohio Air National Guard. Currently, as the Campaign Representative for the Beyond Dirty Fuels Campaign at Sierra Club she focuses on oil and gas infrastructure and waste related issues of the fracking industry across Ohio. Shelly is committed to connecting with the land, relationships and herself to strengthen community, connection & unity with the living world. As a founding member of the grassroots group, Save Our Rural Environment, Roxanne Groff fought the permitting of strip mines in Athens County. Her interest in state law and the lack of implementation of rules by the regulatory agencies, led her to run for public office, first for Township Trustee, then for the County Commissioner. She participates in campaigns to raise awareness and challenge industry abuses that will affect the health and wellbeing of citizens. Roxanne works with Buckeye Environmental Network and the Ohio Brine Task Force, to stop dangerous bills in the Ohio General Assembly, regarding toxic radioactive oil and gas waste as a commodity, inadequate rules for injection wells and oil and gas waste facilities, and the current Petition to revoke primacy of Class II injection wells from ODNR. James Yskamp is a senior attorney at Earthjustice in the Fossil Fuels Program, where he works on matters involving oil and gas and petrochemical infrastructure in the Appalachian Ohio River Valley. Since 2014, James has been representing clients in Ohio and Pennsylvania in a variety of environmental civil matters, including cases involving water rights, citizen suit litigation, air quality permitting, water quality permitting, mineral rights, pipeline challenges, and land