Climate Corner: Two bad bills in the Ohio Legislature
Feb 28, 2026 Rebecca Phillips editorial@newsandsentinel.com The Ohio legislature is up to its usual short-sightedness again, and both legislative houses are in on the act. Senate Bill 294, now in committee, is poised to prevent nearly all future… Read More
Climate Corner: A flood of reasons to act based on the science
Feb 21, 2026 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com Extreme and more frequent flooding and related calamities (e.g. landslides and mudslides) are some of the most dire immediate impacts of the anthropogenic (human-caused) global climate crisis in Central Appalachia. The West… Read More
Climate Corner: Listen to the scientists
Feb 14, 2026 Randi Pokladnik editorial@newsandsentinel.com I was born in 1955, at a time when the USA was entering a new age of technology characterized by the dawn of computing, and when we were first attempting to get… Read More
Climate Corner: Data centers – Where’s the beef?
Feb 7, 2026 George Banziger editorial@newsandsentinel.com Data centers are growing exponentially all around the country. One is being discussed in Washington County, Ohio. There is no data center being planned in Wood County, W.Va., but the state government… Read More
Climate Corner: Fossil fuels, war and home
Jan 24, 2026 Jean Ambrose editorial@newsandsentinel.com I write this column not as a historian or a policy expert, but as someone who lives in a region that has been asked, again and again, to give more than it… Read More
Climate Corner: Standard of living – questioned
Jan 17, 2026 Vic Elam editorial@newsandsentinel.com Aldo Leopold, a man considered by many as the father of modern conservation wrote, “Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them…. Read More
Climate Corner: Pass the torch
Jan 10, 2026 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com I feel ancient when I think about being born in the 1900s. Then I remind myself that growing old is a privilege not all people are given. I also remind myself that… Read More
Climate Corner: Data centers taking pages from coal baron playbook
Jan 3, 2026 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com “Data Centers and bitcoin mines are remaking rural America the same way coal once did. They move into weak regulatory terrain, rewrite the rules in their favor, drain the resources that communities… Read More
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Climate Corner: Perspectives of a new dad…one year in
Mar 7, 2026 Griffin Bradley editorial@newsandsentinel.com As my son approaches his first birthday later this month, I’ve found myself doing a lot of reflecting on what’s been easier or harder than anticipated. The long nights, balancing a full-time… Read More