Climate Corner: Addressing climate change in your own backyard
May 13, 2023 George Banziger editorial@newsandsentinel.comFor anyone in the Mid-Ohio Valley who senses the importance and urgency to act on climate change, these can be frustrating and discouraging times. Public officials in West Virginia seem inextricably committed to… Read More
Throwing us under the fracking truck
May 13, 2023 Times Leader online Randi Pokladnik Ohio’s Republican party is ignoring the health of residents in Appalachian counties as it uses the recent passage of House Bill 507 to enable fracking on Ohio’s public lands. HB… Read More
There is no viable future for coal
(Opinion)Charleston Gazette-Mail 窗体顶端 窗体底端 As West Virginia political leaders clumsily continue clinging to coal, they’re being forced (at least quietly) to reckon with a hard truth: Coal doesn’t have a viable future. To quote an article from West… Read More
Speak up against AEP rate increase
May 9, 2023 Marietta Times Letter to the Editor George Banziger American Electric Power (AEP) is raising its electricity rates in Ohio on June 1 by 28%. On top of that huge increase, AEP Ohio is proposing an… Read More
Climate Corner: Trust me (you?); we collect the data
May 6, 2023 Jonathan Brier My name is Jonathan Brier, I’m a resident of Marietta and an information scientist, but I started as a citizen scientist as a teenager. I didn’t know what I was doing would be called… Read More
Suggested Readings for May 2023
MOVCA Selected Media Postings April 2023 Compiled by Cindy Taylor Appearing in The Marietta Times: April 24, 2023 Local News by Clara Noelle; Photo by Clara Noelle shows Adeline Bailey with MOVCA’s tabling https://www.mariettatimes.com/news/2023/04/24th-earth-day-celebration-a-success/Image of article in Marietta Times… Read More
EPA works with industry, not ‘overreaching’
(Opinion)Charleston Gazette-Mail 窗体顶端 窗体底端 Republicans in West Virginia are absolutely obsessed with claiming that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is “overreaching” in its regulation of industry, especially fossil fuels and derivative industries. Hoppy Kercheval just made the claim… Read More
Last Updated: May 27, 2023 by main_y0ke11
Climate Corner: Regulatory burden – must it be so?
May 27, 2023 Vic Elam editorial@newsandsentinel.com There has been a lot of critical conversation lately about the burden that business, industry, and the economy endure because of what many view as unnecessary laws or regulations. Though I cannot… Read More