Climate Corner: Carbon Capture and Sequestration not the answer
Mar 22, 2025 Randi Pokladnik editorial@newsandsentinel.com Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) is a process which captures carbon dioxide from industry emissions and injects the CO2 deep into the ground via Class VI injection wells. It is an unproven… Read More
Climate Corner: Ban the brine
Mar 15, 2025 Rebecca Phillips editorial@newsandsentinel.com On the increasingly rare occasions when this old lady has to drive in the winter, I try to wait until after the road-clearing crews and salt trucks have done their work. Since… Read More
Climate Corner: Profit, people, planet
Mar 8, 2025 Jean Ambrose editorial@newsandsentinel.com Is it true that government should be run more like a business? This seems to be a given these days, but it couldn’t be further from the truth. The goal of a… Read More
Climate Corner: Pulling the plug
Feb 22, 2025 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com Since the purchase of the White House by the unelected Elon Musk, who contributed $288 million to back Republicans including Donald Trump and others, there has been a flurry of activities from… Read More
Climate Corner: Tough times in Margaritaville
Feb 15, 2025 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com National Margarita Day – Feb. 22, 2025 If you are planning to celebrate National Margarita Day on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, here is something to think about as you make your… Read More
Climate Corner: The right path forward
Feb 8, 2025 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com An AP newswire piece in the Parkersburg News and Sentinel last weekend contained a section that jumped out at me. The piece read, in part, “…a Chinese upstart, DeepSeek, said it developed… Read More
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
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Climate Corner: HB 2014 is a dead end
Mar 29, 2025 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com House Bill 2014, the Power Generation and Consumption Act of 2025, introduced on 3/18/25 into the WV House of Delegates by Speaker Roger Hanshaw at the behest of Gov. Patrick Morrisey, is… Read More