U.S. House Speaker John A. Boehner and Ohio Gov. John Kasich are the top Ohio recipients of campaign funds from the oil and gas industry, according to a report released Thursday.From 2001-10, Boehner, a Republican from southwestern Ohio, got nearly $187,000 from political action campaigns and individuals with industry ties, according to Common Cause, a national nonprofit government watchdog.Kasich got $213,519, the group said.The industries have contributed more than $20 million to current members of Congress and put $726 million into lobbying to avoid government regulations on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to reach new natural gas supplies, the group said in its report, Deep Drilling, Deep Pockets.“Players in this industry have pumped cash into Congress in the same way they pump toxic chemicals into underground rock formations to free trapped gas,” Common Cause President Bob Edgar said in a statement accompanying the report. “And as fracking for gas releases toxic chemicals into groundwater and streams, the industry’s political fracking for support is toxic to efforts for a cleaner environment and relief from our dependence on fossil fuels.”The oil and gas industry says fracking is safe and has been used since the late 1940s.According to the report, companies engaged in fracking contributed $2.8 million to Ohio candidates, political committees and state political parties from 2001 to 2010.No. 2 for getting contributions was the Republican Senate Campaign Committee with $114,750 in the 10 years. Third was the Ohio House Republican Organizing Committee with $95,500.Former Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat, was fourth with $87,450. Former Gov. Bob Taft, a Republican, was ninth with $50,225.Locally, House Speaker Bill Batchelder, R-Medina, was sixth with $71,195; Ohio Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor of Green was 14th with $33,185; and state Rep. Ron Amstutz, R-Wooster, was 19th with $30,100.The major donor was the Ohio Oil & Gas Producers Fund with $820,285 in the 10 years.Other top contributors included the British Petroleum PAC and company employees with $215,438, and the Marathon Oil PAC and employees, $207,054.In Congress, the other top Ohio recipient was U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican, $91,000. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, got $11,000.According to Common Cause, other contributions to U.S. representatives went to: Steven LaTourette, R-Bainbridge Township, $24,000; Jim Renacci, R-Wadsworth, $17,000; Betty Sutton, D-Copley Township, $2,000; and Tim Ryan, D-Niles, $500.Bob Downing can be reached at 330-996-3745 or bdowning@thebeaconjournal.com.