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: 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
Climate Corner: Here comes the sun
Aug 2, 2025 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com It’s exciting that one of the world’s largest solar microgrid and storage projects is currently under construction and located in West (by God) Virginia! The “Canary Solar Grid” project in Jackson County,… Read More
Climate Corner: Climate change and children’s health
Jul 26, 2025 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is. — Greta Thunberg, Swedish activist *** Children are uniquely vulnerable to climate change. In many parts… Read More
Climate Corner: The urgent case for reviving the Ohio River Basin
Jul 19, 2025 Charlise Robinson editorial@newsandsentinel.com The Ohio River Basin covers a vast region that encompasses portions of 14 states and homelands of over 40 federally recognized Tribal Nations. The waters of the basin supply drinking water to… Read More
Climate Corner: The future my daughter lost and how we get it back
Jul 12, 2025 Jonathan Brier climatecorner@brierjon.com 2025 is … the year the government of the United States turned its back on science. … the year I became a dad. … the future my daughter should have seems to… Read More
Climate Corner: Do we live in a pollution haven?
Jul 5, 2025 Vic Elam editorial@newsandsentinel.com Over the past several decades, the United States has experienced a steady loss of manufacturing and heavy industry to countries with more lenient environmental regulations. While globalization and economic factors like labor… Read More
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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