Chris Welter
Chris Welter is an Environmental Reporter at WYSO through Report for America. In 2017, he completed the radio training program at WYSO's Eichelberger Center for Community Voices. Prior to joining the team at WYSO, he did boots-on-the-ground conservation work and policy research on land-use issues in southwest Ohio as a Miller Fellow with the Tecumseh Land Trust.
He is a graduate of Antioch College with a self-designed B.S. in Environmental Journalism and a French Language & Culture focus. He edited the The Antioch Record and later served as chair of the newspaper's advisory board. Through the college's cooperative education program, he interned with an environmental education non-profit in Ypsilanti, MI and worked as a paralegal assistant at a criminal defense firm in Chicago and a bankruptcy center in Philadelphia.
Chris is a lifelong Ohioan, born and raised in Columbus and currently living in Yellow Springs with his two cats, Beaver and Franklin. He moonlights as a mediocre disc golfer and also loves to cook, hike, and read about Ohio history.
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Vistra, a Texas company, says it will retire all of its Midwestern coal operation by 2027 for economic and environmental reasons. -
Restaurant owners, workers and their supporters gathered Thursday night in Beavercreek to protest the COVID-related restrictions placed on their businesses. -
The game was played at Triangle Park near the confluence of the Stillwater and Great Miami River in Dayton. -
Hundreds showed up on Wednesday afternoon to hear the President's son speak about his father's opponent Joe Biden and the "biased media." -
A crowd of more than 50 listened to Desiree Tims and other activists speak about racial injustice on Saturday afternoon at Courthouse Square in downtown Dayton. -
Last August, tens of thousands of Daytonians reclaimed the Oregon District just weeks after the mass shooting. -
Five Rivers Chautauqua has put on an annual Planting of the White Pine Tree Ceremony at different locations throughout the Miami Valley for the last six years. -
Ahead Of President Trump's Event In Vandalia, Dayton Mayor Whaley Is Concerned Of Potential COVID-19Mayor Nan Whaley is worried that with Governor DeWine's COVID precaution exemption, Trump's event on Monday could lead to an uptick in COVID-19 cases in the Miami Valley -
Fiver Rivers' staff gave away three to four thousand native tree seedlings this weekend. -
It was announced last month that the Greater Dayton RTA was awarded over 4.4 million dollars in competitive grants from the federal Department of Transportation
