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

Climate Corner: What’s food got to do with climate change?

Apr 29, 2023 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com Cutting food waste is a delicious way of saving money, helping to feed the world and protecting the planet. — Tristram Stuart *** What we eat, and how that food is… Read More

Public land being stollen

April 24 Columbus Dispatch Letter to the Editor Aaron Dunbar I testified at the Ohio Department of Natural Resources April 10, voicing my opposition to the theft of Ohio’s state parks and public lands for oil and gas… Read More

Climate Corner:‘The most wonderful time to be alive’

Apr 22, 2023 Jean Ambrose editorial@newsandsentinel.com Botanist and bestselling author Robin Wall Kimmerer was recently in Athens, lecturing on indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and what we can learn from plants and the natural world. As both a scientist… Read More

Climate Corner: West Virginia Public Service Commission must say no

Apr 15, 2023 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com First Energy West Virginia subsidiaries MonPower and PotomacEdison want their ratepayers to pay $36 million between June of this year and May 2024 to place the Pleasants Power Station in a state… Read More

Climate Corner: Climate change and your allergies

Apr 8, 2023 Rebecca Phillips editorial@newsandsentinel.com The Mid-Ohio Valley has long been known for the prevalence of respiratory woes, particularly the notorious “Ohio Valley Crud,” often a result of seasonal allergies. Unfortunately, there is bad news for allergy… Read More

Climate Corner: Becoming prepared for the next disaster

Apr 1, 2023 Callie Lyons editorial@newsandsentinel.com We have seen it happen time and again. Shell, IEI, train derailments like East Palestine, untold environmental accidents and disasters – and each of them a threat to our homes, our families,… Read More

Suggested Readings for April 2023

MOVCA Selected Media Postings March 2023 – April 1, 2023 Compiled by Cindy Taylor Appearing in The Marietta Times: March 8, 2023 Local News “MOVCA presentation on Inflation Reduction Act rescheduled” Appearing online in The Parkersburg News and… Read More