Climate Corner: The truth matters

Oct 11, 2025 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com The war on climate science has returned with a vengeance. The Energy Department recently banned several words including “climate change” and “emissions.” Bipartisan-approved renewable energy projects are being canceled. Environmental agencies are… Read More

MOV Climate Corner: The economics of climate change

Oct 4, 2025 Vic Elam (published as local column in Marietta Times) Climate change and economic growth are often thought of as opposing forces, but there is growing evidence that ambitious climate action can not only protect the environment… Read More

Climate Corner: Climate change, extreme weather and insurance companies

Sep 27, 2025 George Banziger editorial@newsandsentinel.com “We are homeowners whose entire neighborhoods have been destroyed by fires and we’re fighting our insurance companies while continuing to pay rate hike after rate hike.” “We are small business owners who… Read More

Climate Corner: An appeal to our better angels

Sep 20, 2025 Griffin Bradley editorial@newsandsentinel.com Since the beginning of time, humans have had an inherent connection to the nature that surrounds them. Even modern humans hold innate primal instincts that connect us to the Earth in one… Read More

What will the day after tomorrow look like?

Sep 13, 2025 Rebecca Phillips Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner   Some of us no doubt remember the 2004 disaster film “The Day After Tomorrow,” in which the collapse of the Atlantic Ocean’s currents led to an ice-covered Northern… Read More

Climate Corner: How much is enough?

Sep 6, 2025 Bev Reed editorial@newsandsentinel.com Washington County takes in the second most amount of fracking waste fluid by county in the state. There are 17 Class Il fracking wastewater injection wells in the county — four of… Read More

Climate Corner: Hijacking the plastics treaty

Aug 30, 2025 Randi Pokladnik Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner On Aug. 15, the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the United Nations ended without a legally binding treaty on plastics pollution. With more than 2,600 participants,… Read More

Climate Corner No more time to waste

Aug 23, 2025 Eric Engle   At a recent meeting I attended with a representative from Congressman Riley Moore’s office at the Resiliency Center in Parkersburg, another meeting attendee referred to the anthropogenic (human-caused) global climate crisis as,… Read More

Climate Corner:’The Last American’

Aug 16, 2025 Aaron Dunbar editorial@newsandsentinel.com “To the American who is more than satisfied with himself and his country this volume is affectionately dedicated.” So reads the opening dedication to J.A. Mitchell’s 1889 novel “The Last American.” An… Read More

Climate Corner: Educating for the earth – youth programs can build a greener future

Aug 9, 2025 Jean Ambrose editorial@newsandsentinel.com Humans like to imagine ourselves at the top of the pyramid when thinking about our place in the universe. But we often forget that we are just one part of the complex… Read More