Op-ed: Plenty of drawbacks in Inflation Reduction Act

Aug 20, 2022 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., shocked us all recently when he agreed to support, and then voted to actually pass, climate and energy legislation known as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022…. Read More

Climate Corner: Water Protectors update

Aug 20, 2022 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com Last summer, more than a thousand people participated in the Treaty People Gathering (TPG), a protest against the Line 3 pipeline being constructed by Enbridge, a Canadian energy transportation company. This pipeline… Read More

Climate Corner: Divorce your lawn

Aug 13, 2022 Randi Pokladnik editorial@newsandsentinel.com This year Californians had to do something that many of us would have a hard time doing … they had to let their lawns die. The drought in that state became so… Read More

Climate Corner: Trickle-up apocalypse

Aug 6, 2022 Aaron Dunbar editorial@newsandsentinel.com Unfettered climate chaos has ravaged the globe throughout July, as it is almost certainly guaranteed to do with increasing magnitude for the remainder of our days. Heatwaves across the U.S. have placed… Read More

Climate Corner: Failed promises of the natural gas industry

Jul 30, 2022 George Banziger editorial@newsandsentinel.com Residents of the Mid-Ohio Valley have been presented with several myths about the benefits of the natural gas industry. These myths have resulted in unfulfilled promises that have left the Valley and… Read More

On climate, making Manchin irrelevant is the only path

WVGazettemail July 26, 2022 Eric Engle The world is being scorched. Europe is suffering under massive heatwaves, as is the U.S, and China. Wildfires, droughts, collapsing glaciers and devastating floods are becoming ubiquitous globally. The U.S’s fastest growing cities like Scottsdale, Arizona… Read More

Climate Corner: Just itching to address climate change

Jul 16, 2022 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com “Late at night while you’re sleeping, poison ivy comes a-creeping…” — Lieber and Stoller 1959 *** Unless you are as old as I am, you might not recognize the song remnant… Read More

EPA ruling far from ‘pro-life’

Letters to the editor  Jul 9, 2022 Aaron Dunbar editorial@newsandsentinel.com On June 24, America’s far right Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision establishing the constitutionality of abortion in the United States. But what… Read More

Climate Corner: Few options after unforgivable ruling

Jul 9, 2022 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com Six unelected authoritarian despots on the U.S. Supreme Court have decided in the case West Virginia v. EPA that the federal administrative body tasked with protection of public health and the environment… Read More

Climate Corner: An eco-friendly Fourth of July

Jul 2, 2022 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com With picnics, parades and fireworks, July Fourth celebrations are often a highlight of the summer. But these celebrations and the activities associated with them can be less than ideal for the planet…. Read More