{"id":1089,"date":"2026-08-12T14:25:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thirdact.org\/ohio\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2026-08-09T14:29:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T14:29:04","slug":"win-on-data-center-wastewater-permit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thirdact.org\/ohio\/2026\/08\/12\/win-on-data-center-wastewater-permit\/","title":{"rendered":"Win on Data Center Wastewater Permit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1086 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thirdact.org\/ohio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/08\/1785900326275-edited-image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thirdact.org\/ohio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/08\/1785900326275-edited-image-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thirdact.org\/ohio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/08\/1785900326275-edited-image-1-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Ohio EPA was moving towards a policy that would have allowed data centers to receive blanket wastewater discharge permits. The water would have gone into our lakes, rivers and streams without an environmental review process. Due to more than 7,000 comments submitted, the EPA will not move forward with its plans to make it easier for Data Centers to skirt significant ecological permitting requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to all our Third Actors who submitted comments.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a rare win but shows that our comments can make a difference!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ohio EPA was moving towards a policy that would have allowed data centers to receive blanket wastewater discharge permits. The water would have gone into our lakes, rivers and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":1086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","location-ohio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thirdact.org\/ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thirdact.org\/ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thirdact.org\/ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thirdact.org\/ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thirdact.org\/ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thirdact.org\/ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/thirdact.org\/ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thirdact.org\/ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thirdact.org\/ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thirdact.org\/ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thirdact.org\/ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}