Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner: The kids are alright
Jun 19, 2021 Angie Iafrate editorial@newsandsentinel.com Teach your children well. This is sound advice to which we can all sing along thanks to 1970s folk rock, but speaking as both a parent and a former high school teacher,… Read More
Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner – Remembering the value of trees
Local columns Jun 12, 2021 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com My mother, a wise and unconventional woman, was in many ways far ahead of her peers and her times. Back in the 1950s, our urban N.J. home was surrounded… Read More
Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner – It’s time to THRIVE
Local columns Jun 5, 2021 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com To quote Johan Rockstrom, Vice-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, “An emergency is calculated by risk divided by time. Risk… Read More
Climate Corner: It’s time for us to reimagine Appalachia
May 29, 2021 George Banziger Parkersburg News and Sentinel People in the Appalachian region have for generations assumed that good-paying union jobs had to involve the sacrifice of their health–even their lives–in extractive industries such as coal. New… Read More
Climate Corner: Carbon capture sequestration technology won’t solve crisis
May 22, 2021 Parkersburg News and Sentinel Randi Pokladnik In its current state, carbon capture is another false promise when it comes to addressing the urgent need to decrease carbon dioxide emissions. The very industry that is a… Read More
Climate Corner: Methanol facility a bad idea for valley
May 8, 2021 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com The company West Virginia Methanol, Inc. submitted a permit application in November 2020 to build a facility in Pleasants County on a former carbon black site along the Ohio River. The West… Read More
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Moving on from coal without abandoning miners
Charleston Gazette MailBy Jim Probst Jun 21, 2021“Change is coming whether we seek it or not. Too many inside and outside the coalfields have looked the other way when it comes to recognizing and addressing specifically what that… Read More