Where’s the accountability?”

Appearing on-line in Charleston Gazette-Mail: Monday, December 14, 2020 Opinion by Eric Engle, Parkersburg, WV I was startled out of the lull of nightly streaming with my fiancée when news broke on my iPhone about an explosion and… Read More

The urgent threat of climate change

Appearing in The Athens News: Wednesday, December 30, 2020  Letter to the Editor by Aaron Dunbar, Lowell, OH What do the U.S. Pentagon, insurance companies, the Federal Reserve, state pension funds, Democrats, Republicans, socialists, environmentalists and the fossil… Read More

An age of climate, capture and COVID-19

Appearing in The Parkersburg News and Sentinel: Saturday, December 19, 2020 Op-Ed by Eric Engle, chairman of Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action, board of directors member of WV Rivers Coalition and co-chair of the WV Sierra Club Executive Committee…. Read More

Time for Real Climate Efforts

Parkersburg News & Sentinel Letter to the Editor Nov 21, 2020 By Eric Engle It’s become a fad of late for government, corporate and industrial entities to promise emissions reductions by the end of the decade and carbon… Read More

Climate Change is Affecting our Hydrosphere

Column in The Bargain Hunter Nov 20, 2020 by Randi Pokladnik                         When we talk about climate change, we often fail to recognize the role that our oceans play in the bio-chemical cycles of the… Read More

Campaign Signs for Bees

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) – For those in the Mid-Ohio Valley area who are wondering what they can do with their campaign signs in their yards, there is an alternative to simply throwing them out. The Mid-Ohio Valley Climate… Read More

Help economy AND climate recover

Parkersburg News & Sentinel Letter to the Editor Nov 14, 2020 by Aaron Dunbar It’s safe to say that a lot of interesting things happened on Nov. 3. But chief among them to me was a segment during… Read More

A fact-based conversation about fracking

Local columns in The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Oct 31, 2020 Randi Pokladnik Let’s have a fact-based conversation about fracking rather than attempt to “greenwash” the industry and completely ignore the externalities as Greg Kozera’s Oct. 17 op-ed… Read More

Be a climate voter

Letters to the editor in The Parkersburg News and Sentinel by Eric Engle Oct 17, 2020 Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action is a voluntary association on file with the WV Secretary of State’s Office and works on both sides… Read More

Green Sanctuary Committee proposes pollinator garden

Local News Oct 9, 2020 in The Marietta Times by Janelle Patterson Approximately 250 feet of Muskingum River frontage on the western bank is the proposed home of a pollinator planting garden and solar charging bench. (Graphic illustration… Read More