MOVCA promotes ‘WV3C’ webinars during transition
Jun 24, 2021 Marietta Times PARKERSBURG — Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action’s usual Third Thursday programs will resume when protocols for safe, in-person, indoor public programs are clearly established. Until then, MOVCA is pleased to attend and promote the… Read More
Moving on from coal without abandoning miners
Charleston Gazette MailBy Jim Probst Jun 21, 2021“Change is coming whether we seek it or not. Too many inside and outside the coalfields have looked the other way when it comes to recognizing and addressing specifically what that… Read More
Health Effects from Fossil Fuel Combustion
by Duane Nichols on June 19, 2021 Fossil Fuels are Causing Public Health Effects One in Five Premature Deaths Result from Fossil Fuels From Living On Earth, PRX, Air Date: Week of June 18, 2021 Fine particulate matter… Read More
Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner: The kids are alright
Jun 19, 2021 Angie Iafrate editorial@newsandsentinel.com Teach your children well. This is sound advice to which we can all sing along thanks to 1970s folk rock, but speaking as both a parent and a former high school teacher,… Read More
Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner – Remembering the value of trees
Local columns Jun 12, 2021 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com My mother, a wise and unconventional woman, was in many ways far ahead of her peers and her times. Back in the 1950s, our urban N.J. home was surrounded… Read More
Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner – It’s time to THRIVE
Local columns Jun 5, 2021 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com To quote Johan Rockstrom, Vice-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, “An emergency is calculated by risk divided by time. Risk… Read More
Emissions – What level?
Jun 5, 2021 Warren Peascoe editorial@newsandsentinel.com What is the proper amount of emissions to allow from industrial and chemical plants and how are emissions traded for jobs? I was appalled when I compared what West Virginia’s Department of… Read More
Climate Corner: It’s time for us to reimagine Appalachia
May 29, 2021 George Banziger Parkersburg News and Sentinel People in the Appalachian region have for generations assumed that good-paying union jobs had to involve the sacrifice of their health–even their lives–in extractive industries such as coal. New… Read More
Repurposed – Solar energy project shows great promise
Editorials May 29, 2021 An experiment is in the works in southwest Virginia and Tennessee, that might have far-reaching benefits for the rest of coal country. A Nature Conservancy preserve that spans parts of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee… Read More
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Engle: The house is on fire; will we stop lighting matches? (Opinion)
WV Gazette Mail 6/24/2021 As the White House and Congress discuss infrastructural investments, including green energy and sustainability, and ideas like tax code changes to pay for them, the time to act on the global climate crisis is… Read More