WVPB Features the 1000 Year Flood of 2016 One Year After

June 19, 2017

Inside Appalachia: A Year Of Recovery from the Flood of 2016 Premieres Tuesday, June 20 at 6:30 PM on WVPB Following historic flooding last year that killed 23 people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses, residents across the Mountain State are still grappling with a long recovery. In this TV special from WVPB’s Inside [...]

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Environmental Justice Under Challenge in Marcellus Region

June 19, 2017

Natural Gas Industry Brings A Fake Grassroots Group To Eastern Pipeline Fights From an Article by Alexander C. Kaufman, Huffington Post, June 12, 2017 The industry-funded “Your Energy” is trying to mobilize a movement to counter pipeline protesters. Amid intensifying fights over new natural gas pipelines in Virginia, New Jersey and New England, the gas [...]

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Big Oil & Gas Promotes Fossil Fuels in Our Children’s Classrooms

June 18, 2017

Pipeline to the classroom: how big oil promotes fossil fuels to America’s children –Documents show pro-industry organizations target schoolchildren and teachers From an Article by Jie Jenny Zou and Joe Wertz, Center for Public Integrity & State-Impact Oklahoma (NPR), June 15, 2017 This story was a collaboration between the Center for Public Integrity and StateImpact [...]

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The Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Seeks to Compute (Update) the “Social Cost of Carbon”

June 17, 2017

OIRA works quietly on updating social cost of carbon From an Article by Hannah Hess, E&E News, Greenwire: June 15, 2017 Some federal employees are still working to analyze and compute a social cost of carbon. Not far from the White House, some of the federal government’s most influential number crunchers are still working to [...]

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Natural Gas Pipelines in the Marcellus Shale Region, Part 2

June 16, 2017

Natural Gas Pipeline —  A Bird’s Eye View, Part 2 From an Article by Robbie Harris, WVTF News, National Public Radio, June 14, 2017 Decision day is getting closer for the Mountain Valley Pipeline. If approved, it would carry natural gas from Pennsylvania, through Virginia and beyond. In part one of our report, Robbie Harris [...]

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The Resistance to ACP Continues to Build in WV, VA, NC & SC

June 15, 2017

Job Opening — Charlotte Field Organizer:  Greenpeace USA Job ID: 2017-1145, Job Locations: US-NC-Charlotte, Posted Date: 6/14/2017, Category: Grassroots Overview: Greenpeace’s field team builds power for the climate and climate justice movements by organizing in regions, supporting movement partners, and facilitating the role of the broader organization in regional and local work. We center equity [...]

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Natural Gas Pipelines in the Marcellus Shale Region, Part 1

June 14, 2017

Pipelines: A Bird’s Eye View — Part 1 From an Article by Robbie Harris, WVTF National Public Radio,  June 13, 2017 Nearly three years after E-Q-T Partners proposed the Mountain Valley Natural Gas pipeline, decision day is approaching. If approved, it would carry (natural gas) underground, 300 miles across Virginia. But that prospect continues to fuel [...]

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The Time for Renewable Energy is from NOW ON

June 13, 2017

New Study: Americans Want to Use More Renewable Energy Organization Profile: Center for Biological Diversity Contact: Chad Tudenggongbu For Immediate Release: Monday, June 12, 2017 WASHINGTON – A new study by University of Washington researchers has found that a majority of Americans would prefer to use renewable energy at home if given the option. Individuals [...]

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Survey Crews are Challenged on the New Natural Gas Pipelines

June 12, 2017

Pipeline opponents confront survey crews on Bent Mountain From the Report by Joe Dashiell, WDBJ News 7, May 31, 2017 ROANOKE CO., Va. (WDBJ7) When members of a Mountain Valley Pipeline survey team pulled over on the side of Route 221, pipeline opponents weren’t far behind. They attempted to block the path onto neighboring property [...]

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Mountain Valley Pipeline Project Now Under Appeal in the US District Court

June 11, 2017

Environmental groups ask court to review W.Va. decision to issue pipeline water quality permit From an Article by Duncan Adams, Roanoke Times, June 9, 2017 Five environmental watchdog organizations filed a petition Friday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that seeks a review of a water quality permit issued in West [...]

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