Climate Corner: How much is enough?

Nov 4, 2023 Aaron Dunbar editorial@newsandsentinel.com How many genocides? How many extinctions? How many wars must we wage? How many lives must we destroy? How many lands must we make uninhabitable? How many thousands of Palestinian children must… Read More

Climate Corner: Can’t get genie back in bottle

Oct 28, 2023 Parkersburg News and Sentinel Vic Elam The industrial age has served us well and the oil, gas, and coal industries have served us well to provide the energy needed to become the world power we… Read More

Climate Corner: Save Ohio parks

Oct 21, 2023 Randi Pokladnik editorial@newsandsentinel.com On Friday, Oct. 27, at noon, Save Ohio Parks will be holding a rally for Ohio State Parks, Climate and Democracy. When HB 133 passed back in 2011, Ohio’s Republican legislators made… Read More

Climate Corner: Why should we sacrifice for fossil fuels?

Oct 14, 2023 George Banziger editorial@newsandsentinel.com Advocates of the fossil-fuel industry often claim that the expeditious transition to renewable energy will involve sacrifice on the part of everyday Americans. What has truly involved sacrifice for most Americans, and,… Read More

Climate Corner: Electrify the MOV, it just makes cents

Oct 7, 2023 Jonathan Brier editorial@newsandsentinel.com Electrification can be more economical and provides health and environmental benefits too. Why am I focusing on electrification? Last week was National Drive Electric Week (Sept. 22-Oct. 1) and we are entering… Read More

Climate Corner: The future is NOW!

Sep 30, 2023 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com “The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting.” — U.N. Sec. Gen. Antonio Guterres *** Global climate change is not a future problem. Effects that scientists have… Read More

Climate Corner: With ‘friends’ like these…

Sep 23, 2023 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com As a Mon Power ratepayer, I have to say I’m really tired of being on the hook for the refusal of the powers that be in West Virginia to move on from… Read More

Climate Corner: Beyond shopping bags

News & Sentinel Sep 16, 2023 Jean Ambrose After a month of climate-induced catastrophes across the world–so called “thousand year” floods in eight countries in just the past eleven days! –I’ve been feeling as though my efforts to… Read More

Climate Corner: Human stories amid our changing climate

Sep 9, 2023 Rebecca Phillips editorial@newsandsentinel.com (Photo Provided) This column often focuses on facts and figures, and those are important, but today I want to share stories from the front lines of climate change. We in the Mid-Ohio… Read More

The Teflon Time Machine – from the Manhattan Project to the Mid-Ohio Valley

Sep 2, 2023 Callie Lyons editorial@newsandsentinel.com The years between World War I and World War II were full of innovation, technological advances, and scientific growth. Many modern inventions — or the perfection of modern inventions — take root… Read More