Exploited, indeed

Apr 12, 2020 By Aaron Dunbar Letter to the Editor Parkersburg News and Sentinel A couple of weeks back I submitted a letter to the News and Sentinel, discussing the lessons we should be learning from the COVID-19… Read More

Whether it’s coronavirus or climate crisis, think globally and act locally now

Mar 23, 2020 By Adeline Bailey Letter to the Editor in the Marietta Times Currently, reports of the spread of the coronavirus fill the news. COVID-19 started far from the U.S., but now Ohio health officials and public… Read More

Respond to climate change, too

Mar 22, 2020 By Aaron Dunbar Letter to the Editor in Parkersburg News and Sentinel Transport your mind back to the beginning of this year. Or for that matter, to even a few short weeks ago. Imagine someone… Read More

Transitioning from fossil fuels

Mar 8, 2020 By Aaron Dunbar in the Parkersburg News and Sentinel The fossil fuel industry cares infinitely less about you or your family than it would have you believe. Workers and their communities are little more than… Read More

Uncertain future

Marietta Times Letter to the Editor Mar 18, 2020 by Dawn Hewitt Society seems to be freaking out irrationally about COVID-19. Rational preparation to the growing threat makes much more sense. We don’t know whether the virus will… Read More

Climate change a spiritual issue

Feb 16, 2020 by Aaron Dunbar Letter to the Editor in the Marietta Times As someone who spent the first twenty years of his life as a devout Christian, I’ve long been baffled by the church’s unwillingness to… Read More

Energy: Investment in renewables is vital to state’s future

Feb 12, 2020 Editorial in Parkersburg News and Sentinel West Virginians understand how much we owe the generations of coal miners who have kept our — and the rest of the country’s — lights on. Our emotional response… Read More

Solar energy — West Virginia’s path to a brighter economic future

Mar 1, 2020 by Beth Wheatley Editorial at Parkersburg News & Sentinel The time is now for West Virginia to seize the opportunity to capture some of the 240,000 jobs and the billions of dollars of annual investment… Read More

Energy – Embrace change or not

Feb 28, 2020 Letter to the Editor at Marietta Times by Vic Elam There is a lot of information swirling around these days about climate change – is it real or a natural phenomenon – if it is… Read More

Finding common ground on climate change

Marietta Times and Parkersburg News & Sentinel Feb 9, 2020 by George Banziger As the election year of 2020 unfolds, there is plenty of rancor and polarization in the political world. One issue that can potentially achieve bipartisan… Read More