GrassRoot Ohio with Lynn Anderson, Doug Fowler, and John Stolz PhD, activists and scientists researching the impact of unconventional shale gas (fracking) extraction in and around Youngstown and the findings of their research entitled, “Assessing the Water Chemistry of Tributaries in the Mahoning River Watershed”. Lynn Anderson is an artist and activist from Youngstown, Ohio. In 2011 she began protecting her community against the toxic trespass of fracking waste brought in for disposal into injection wells that former Governor Kasich and his administration’s ODNR permitted to be drilled in and around Youngstown. When small earthquakes started on March 17, 2011 and culminated in a 4.0 earthquake on Dec. 31, 2011, Lynn and other members of Occupy Youngstown raised the alarm and began to fight to get the D&L injection well closed down. They continued fighting the oil & gas onslaught from 2012-2013 from fracking wells to pipelines. She spoke out, organized others and helped mount a citizen ballot initiative for nine election cycles to try to keep the land and water safe from fracking waste in her community and Ohio. Lynn is a Founding member of the Youngstown Community Bills of Rights, a Member of Frackfree Mahoning, Board member of TreezPlease and Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund-celdf, supporter.http://www.protectyoungstown.orgfrackfreemahoning.blogspot.com/https://thrivingearthexchange.org/project/youngstown-oh/CELDF press release about Youngstown Community Bill of Rightshttps://celdf.org/.../press-release-mahoning-board-of.../Doug Fowler has been a teacher for most of his working life. He retired from the University of Wisconsin in 2014 where he lecturered in astronomy and physics. In the mid 70s Fowler studied geology at the University of Montana, and in the fall of 2018 he taught the mineralogy at Youngstown State University. With this background, combined with a longtime interest in wild places, backpacking and mountaineering, he considers himself a natural historian. Fowler continues an association with UW by working with geology and astronomy students using Lunar samples on loan from NASA as part of their educational program and he watches the night sky on a regular basis.John Stolz is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Director of the Center for Environmental Research and Education at Duquesne University. He received his BS degree from Fordham University in 1977 and earned his PhD at Boston University in microbial ecology and evolution. He was an NRC Post doctoral fellow at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Department of Geology and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, and an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Plant Biology in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His main research interests are in microbial diversity; the microbial metabolism of metals and metalloids including arsenic, selenium, and nitrate; and water quality impacts of unconventional shale gas extraction. Dr. Stolz has published 94 journal articles, 40 book chapters, and author-edited three books.[email protected]GrassRoot_Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Fridays Sundays at and Sundays at Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/& Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753GrassRoot Ohio is on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085All GrassRoot Ohio interviews can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8