Tag: The Marietta Times

Climate justice is racial justice

Letter to the Editor Marietta Times Jun 12, 2020 by Aaron Dunbar Today I’ve been privileged to sit among the citizens of Marietta as they held a peaceful demonstration honoring George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and so… Read More

The future will be green or not at all

Letter to the Editor Marietta Times by Aaron Dunbar Jun 2, 2020 “There have been calls for a moratorium on the approval and construction of new natural gas pipeline projects and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) during the COVID-19… Read More

Caught between supply and demand

Local Column Marietta Times May 9, 2020 By David E. Ballantyne Little in my experience prepared me for a Pandemic. I am an engineer by training; thus, a student of science. I have high respect for the methods… Read More

A legacy of externalized costs

Letter to the Editor, Marietta Times by Victor Elam, May 6 Externalized costs are costs that are generated by one party who benefits but a third party pays for those costs directly or indirectly. The Mid-Ohio Valley is… Read More

Trust the science

Letter to the Editor Marietta Times May 13, 2020 by Aaron Dunbar “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been,” wrote prominent science fiction author Issac Asimov four decades ago. “The… Read More

Increasing risk without our consent

Letter to the Editor May 5, 2020 Marietta Times by Rebecca Phillips Yet again, proposals affecting the health and well-being of everyone in the Mid-Ohio Valley are being made without our input. The Army Corps of Engineers is… Read More

Residents concerned about wastewater permit

Local News May 5, 2020 Marietta Times by Michele Newbanks, The public comment period is set to end Wednesday on a permit for a docking facility at Deep Rock Disposal Solutions. The docking facility, which would be located… Read More

Climate change and national security

Letter to the Editor Apr 28, 2020 Marietta Times by Aaron Dunbar “Within a few short centuries, we are returning to the air a significant part of the carbon that was extracted by plants and buried in the… Read More

Save our earth

Letter to the Editor Apr 24, 2020 Marietta Times by Margaret Meeker Last year at this time I submitted a letter concerning Earth Day which was started 50 years ago under a Republican administration. As we approach Earth… Read More

Whether it’s coronavirus or climate crisis, think globally and act locally now

Mar 23, 2020 By Adeline Bailey Letter to the Editor in the Marietta Times Currently, reports of the spread of the coronavirus fill the news. COVID-19 started far from the U.S., but now Ohio health officials and public… Read More