MOV Climate Corner: The economics of climate change
Oct 4, 2025 Vic Elam (published as local column in Marietta Times) Climate change and economic growth are often thought of as opposing forces, but there is growing evidence that ambitious climate action can not only protect the environment… Read More
Climate Corner: Do we live in a pollution haven?
Jul 5, 2025 Vic Elam editorial@newsandsentinel.com Over the past several decades, the United States has experienced a steady loss of manufacturing and heavy industry to countries with more lenient environmental regulations. While globalization and economic factors like labor… Read More
Climate Corner: Frustration!
Apr 12, 2025 Vic Elam editorial@newsandsentinel.com If a team of master mechanics told you that your brakes are severely worn and that if you continue to drive without making the necessary repairs you run a serious risk of… 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: Caution – the Renewable Fuel Standard story
Nov 16, 2024 Vic Elam editorial@newsandsentinel.com In 2006, the Federal Government passed the Renewable Fuel Standard, and the Environmental Protection Agency was tasked with implementing it. It seemed like a great idea at the time – what could… Read More
Climate Corner: What’s a tree worth
Aug 31, 2024 Vic Elam editorial@newsandsentinel.com This is a complicated question, and the value of a tree varies upon the perspective of the beholder. One could look at it simply from the commercial perspective and determine the board… Read More
Climate Corner: Seize the opportunity
Jun 15, 2024 Vic Elam editorial@newsandsentinel.com The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) came out with a report last year for the year 2022 and in it a scorecard ranking of all states, West Virginia and Ohio… Read More
Climate Corner: Water is life
Mar 30, 2024 Vic Elam editorial@newsandsentinel.com During the Roman Empire, it is thought that lead poisoning from the lead pipes that the Romans used may have caused or contributed to the downfall of the Roman Empire. Yet today… Read More
Climate Corner: America’s vanishing treasures
Jan 13, 2024 Vic Elam editorial@newsandsentinel.com “Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is a many faceted treasure, of value to… Read More
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Climate Corner: Standard of living – questioned
Jan 17, 2026 Vic Elam editorial@newsandsentinel.com Aldo Leopold, a man considered by many as the father of modern conservation wrote, “Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them…. Read More