Climate Corner: EPA finalizes important rules

May 25, 2024 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com Last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized four rules on greenhouse gas emissions from electric generation facilities. Such facilities make up 51% of emissions emanating from West Virginia, over double… Read More

Current and former Ohio politicians from both parties bow at the altar of fossil fuels

Randi Pokladnik   May 22, 2024 4:30 am Ohio’s Republican politicians will do anything to promote fracking in Ohio. They’ve passed legislation that outlaws protests against oil and gas infrastructure (SB 33); forces Ohio landowners into fracking leases… Read More

Climate Corner: Bye-bye, birdies

May 18, 2024 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com “Birds tell us about the health of our natural environment — we ignore their messages at our peril.” — Patricia Zurita, BirdLife CEO *** Bird populations are declining around the world…. Read More

Climate Corner: Good news for everyone

May 11, 2024 Rebecca Phillips editorial@newsandsentinel.com Spring is a good time for some good news, given how surrounded we are by bad news so much of the time. The good news is even better when it pertains to… Read More

Climate Corner: Climate Corps a place to learn skills, duty and responsibility

May 4, 2024 Jean Ambrose editorial@newsandsentinel.com) I’m a student of history. In times like these, it gives me hope to look at other times when the future seemed dim to remember that we’re not novices in confronting great… Read More

Selected Readings for May 2024

MOVCA Selected Media Postings April 2024 plus a few missed in the March listing Compiled by Cindy Taylor Available online in The Parkersburg News and Sentinel: April 30, 2024 Business News Staff report “West Virginia officials approve construction… Read More