Episode Details

Guest Host Joe DeMare talks about finding a gas well in his neighborhood, and talks a little bit about Wood County Ohio's history of boom and bust oil extraction. Wood County was once the largest oil producing region in the world. Now tiny, impoverished villages struggle to stay alive. Next, he takes a deep dive into the ecological impacts of Data Centers, and the similarity between the Data Center bubble and the oil boom. Rebecca Wood talks about pigeons and rock doves. Ecological News includes progress on a court case protecting Yellowstone bison, wildfires in Europe, and the Trump administration admitting it withheld federal renewable energy grants from states that voted against Trump in the 2026 elections.