Climate Corner: Jimmy Carter – visionary

Feb 1, 2025 Vic Elam editorial@newsandsentinel.com Recently deceased former President Jimmy Carter grew up close to the land, hunting, fishing, and farming his family’s property near Plains, Ga. From those experiences Carter developed an ethic of environmental stewardship… Read More

Climate Corner: Having it both ways – a cleaner environment and economic growth

Jan 25, 2025 George Banziger editorial@newsandsentinel.com It’s a frequently held assumption, often promoted by fossil-fuel interests, that in order to pursue a cleaner environment, we need to make sacrifices for economic development. Nothing could be further from the… Read More

Climate Corner: The Ohio Valley has a radiation problem

Jan 18, 2025 Randi Pokladnik editorial@newsandsentinel.com During the 60s, I remember the government conducted Civil Defense drills in my school. We were told to climb under our school desks, duck down, and cover our heads. We might have… Read More

Climate Corner: Driving a used EV by the numbers

Jan 11, 2025 Jonathan Brier climatecorner@brierjon.com In April 2024 I wrote “How my life changed driving a used EV.” It was just over 12 months ago I purchased a used Hyundai Kona Electric with 20,202 miles. A couple… Read More

Climate Corner: Dollars and (common) sense

Jan 4, 2025 Griffin Bradley editorial@newsandsentinel.com With the 2024 elections behind us and a second Trump administration preparing to take control in a few short weeks, I find it to be a time of reflection on the last… Read More