Climate Corner: Need for air monitoring effort only grows
Jul 11, 2026 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com Communities throughout the Mid-Ohio Valley woke up Sunday morning, July 5, to an ominous black plume overhead as the Peoples Cartage building off Camden Avenue was engulfed in flame. It was a… Read More
Climate Corner: Grateful for community support
May 23, 2026 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action (MOVCA) was proud to take part for the first time this year in the Parkersburg Area Community Foundation’s Give Local MOV annual day of giving. Our organization received… 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: 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
Climate Corner: Yes, WE are the problem
Oct 18, 2025 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com I’ve been voraciously consuming content on climate change and related phenomena (books, articles, documentaries, lectures, etc.) for at least the last 10 years, with this month being the 10-year anniversary of the… 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: Don’t fall for it
Jun 14, 2025 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., had an op-ed published in the June 5 edition of the Parkersburg News and Sentinel titled “Pulling the plug on the EV mandate” that was absolutely farcical. The… Read More
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
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
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Climate Corner: Vote not just for climate, but affordability
Eric Engle October 10, 2026 The energy research company Energy Innovation recently completed an analysis, Associated Press coverage of which was published in last weekend’s edition of the Parkersburg News and Sentinel, that found that “households will pay… Read More