Op-ed: Expanding oil and gas use not the answer
Aug 22, 2024 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com It should come as no surprise to anyone that the presidents of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, the West Virginia Oil & Gas Association and the Ohio Oil & Gas Association would claim… Read More
Climate Corner: Learn more about an alternative
Aug 10, 2024 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com On Thursday, Aug. 15, from 6-7:30 p.m., at the Parkersburg & Wood County Public Library at 3100 Emerson Ave. in North Parkersburg, the West Virginia solar installation company Solar Holler will be… Read More
Climate Corner: EPA finalizes important rules
May 25, 2024 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com Last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized four rules on greenhouse gas emissions from electric generation facilities. Such facilities make up 51% of emissions emanating from West Virginia, over double… Read More
Climate Corner: More fracked gas is a dead end
Mar 23, 2024 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com It’s clearer than ever that, for residents of Ohio and greater Appalachia, the fracking “boom” has turned out to be a bust. The Appalachian Hydrogen Hub will only be another dead end… Read More
Climate Corner: No more time to delay action
Jan 20, 2024 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com The International Energy Agency recently reported that an estimated 507 gigawatts of renewable electricity were added globally in 2023, three-quarters of which was solar. Most of this solar was built in China,… Read More
Climate Corner: ‘Blue’ hydrogen is not the answer
Nov 25, 2023 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com I’m writing this weekend’s Climate Corner column in response to a column from last weekend’s edition of the Parkersburg News and Sentinel regarding the Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen (ARCH2) hub proposed for… Read More
Hydrogen hub isn’t the ‘clean’ energy Manchin portrays (Opinion)
By Eric Engle Nov 1, 2023 Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., recently wrote a very positive op-ed piece published in the Gazette-Mail regarding the Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2). In glowing terms, Manchin spoke of the opportunities bestowed… Read More
Climate Corner: With ‘friends’ like these…
Sep 23, 2023 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com As a Mon Power ratepayer, I have to say I’m really tired of being on the hook for the refusal of the powers that be in West Virginia to move on from… Read More
Don’t buy snake oil in form of carbon capture
Charleston Gazette-Mail The idea of carbon capture and storage (aka carbon capture and sequestration or in some cases carbon capture, utilization and storage or sequestration) has captured the imagination of West Virginia’s state and federal politicians. That’s about… Read More
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Climate Corner: Join the fight!
Oct 26, 2024 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com A study conducted from July to November 2023 by the NYU School of Medicine, Stanford University, Utah State University, the University of Washington and George Washington University, among others, and published in… Read More