Climate Corner: River can’t be sewer, drinking water source
Jul 17, 2021 Randi Pokladnik The Ohio River gets its name from the Iroquois Indian word Oyo, meaning great river. It is formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers starting in Pittsburgh. The river is… Read More
Climate Corner: Water protectors
Jul 10, 2021 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com My journey to climate activism began when my husband and I became fossil fuel refugees. We affectionately called our small farm, located in Greene County, Pa., just a mile from the West… Read More
Engle: The house is on fire; will we stop lighting matches? (Opinion)
WV Gazette Mail 6/24/2021 As the White House and Congress discuss infrastructural investments, including green energy and sustainability, and ideas like tax code changes to pay for them, the time to act on the global climate crisis is… Read More
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
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
Last Updated: April 28, 2023 by main_y0ke11
Carbon capture
Jul 22, 2021 The Labor Energy Partnership led by the AFL-CIO and Energy Futures is proposing the Ohio River Valley become a hub for fossil-fuel generated hydrogen and carbon dioxide using carbon capture technology. The major industry contributing… Read More