Climate Corner: Goodbye, Tuvalu; alas, I hardly knew you
FEB 11, 2023 LINDA EVE SETH Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner editorial@newsandsentinel.com “Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize what you’ve had, what you’ve lost, and what you’ve taken for granted.” — Ritu Ghatourey *** Anyone who has stood… Read More
Climate Corner: How much are you willing to tolerate?
Feb 7, 2023 The Marietta Times Vic Elam On Sept. 8 a brine truck carrying what was reported as drilling brine with zinc salts crashed on or near Mountaineer Hwy. near New Martinsville spilling 1260 gallons into a yard… Read More
Climate Corner: Blue hydrogen hub a bad idea for the Ohio Valley
Feb 4, 2023 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com With the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, perhaps better known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations received up to $7… Read More
Suggested Readings for February 2023
MOVCA January 2022 Selected Media Postings Compiled by Cindy Taylor Appearing on-line in the Charleston Gazette-Mail: viewing available only to subscribers See Articles by Mike Tony, Environment and Energy Reporter https://www.wvgazettemail.com/users/profile/mike%20tony/ Appearing on-line on WTAP: January 11, 2023… Read More
Climate Corner: An intergenerational partnership
Jan 28, 2023 Jean Ambrose editorial@newsandsentinel.com When America was attacked on 9/11, more than 20 years ago and before anyone now in high school was born, there was a prevalent idea that if there were the smallest chance… Read More
Climate Corner: Maple syrup season approaches – but for how much longer?
Jan 21, 2023 Rebecca Phillips editorial@newsandsentinel.com If you are like me, you look forward to each year’s maple syrup crop. After tasting the real thing, the artificially flavored and colored substance that passes for syrup in most grocery… Read More
Climate Corner: Your water is not all right
Jan 14, 2023 Callie Lyons editorial@newsandsentinel.com When is DuPont going to provide a means of filtering Parkersburg water supplies contaminated with highly fluorinated chemicals like those we call C8 or Gen-X? Twenty years ago this coming June, I… Read More
Climate Corner: All in this greenhouse together
Jan 7, 2023 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com Although the basic physics of climate change have been known for more than a century, it remained out of the public’s attention for decades. In the 1980s, media outlets began bringing scientists’… Read More
Climate Corner: Climate change played a role in Winter Storm Elliott
Dec 31, 2022 Randi Pokladnik editorial@newsandsentinel.com Some will use the recent cold weather event to claim climate change is not real and the planet isn’t warming. But, when one looks at the actual science behind these “Arctic bomb… Read More
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Climate Corner: Demand accountability for derailment damage
Feb 18, 2023 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com If you’ve been paying much attention to the headlines in the last couple weeks, you’ve probably heard about the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio,… Read More