Tag: The Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Climate action necessary

Appearing in The Parkersburg News and Sentinel: Saturday, January 2, 2021   Letter to the Editor by Aaron Dunbar, Lowell, OH “No, Joe, we’re not in a ‘climate crisis’” writes Rich Lowry of the National Review, in an ill-informed… Read More

An age of climate, capture and COVID-19

Appearing in The Parkersburg News and Sentinel: Saturday, December 19, 2020 Op-Ed by Eric Engle, chairman of Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action, board of directors member of WV Rivers Coalition and co-chair of the WV Sierra Club Executive Committee…. Read More

Time for Real Climate Efforts

Parkersburg News & Sentinel Letter to the Editor Nov 21, 2020 By Eric Engle It’s become a fad of late for government, corporate and industrial entities to promise emissions reductions by the end of the decade and carbon… Read More

Help economy AND climate recover

Parkersburg News & Sentinel Letter to the Editor Nov 14, 2020 by Aaron Dunbar It’s safe to say that a lot of interesting things happened on Nov. 3. But chief among them to me was a segment during… Read More

A fact-based conversation about fracking

Local columns in The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Oct 31, 2020 Randi Pokladnik Let’s have a fact-based conversation about fracking rather than attempt to “greenwash” the industry and completely ignore the externalities as Greg Kozera’s Oct. 17 op-ed… Read More

Be a climate voter

Letters to the editor in The Parkersburg News and Sentinel by Eric Engle Oct 17, 2020 Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action is a voluntary association on file with the WV Secretary of State’s Office and works on both sides… Read More

Ignore chatter, learn more

Sep 5, 2020 in The Parkersburg News and Sentinel by Aaron Dunbar “You’re a dummy!” “drink the kool-aid snowflake” “how about you go into your basement cupcake” “you need to seriously change your name to Aaron Dumbar.” These… Read More

More Opportunities For Climate Action with MOVCA

Sept 3, 2020 in The Parkersburg News and Sentinel by Adeline Bailey PARKERSBURG, West Virginia –  Since large in-person gatherings indoors are not advisable during this time of COVID-19, Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action’s usual Third Thursday programs have… Read More

Hold reps to task on climate

Aug 29, 2020 The Parkersburg News and Sentinel: Sarah Cross This letter is in response to the July 25 op-ed article in the Parkersburg News and Sentinel, “Thank you for Backing the Great American Outdoors Act.” I could… Read More

Be responsible, not scared

Aug 22, 2020 The Parkersburg News and Sentinel by Aaron Dunbar I was recently watching a video on the 2020 Presidential Election (I believe it was a clip from Rising with Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti) in which… Read More