Marcellus Well Pad Worker Killed on the Job in Tyler County

January 15, 2017

Identity released of victim in well pad workplace death on Thursday From an Article by Kailee E. Gallahan, Clarksburg Exponent Telegraph, January 13, 2017 Middlebourne, WV — The identity of a man fatally injured at a Tyler County oil-and-gas well site Thursday morning has been released. Hunter D. Osborn, 19, of Lewis County, died at Ruby [...]

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Why Every Nuclear Plant Should be Shut Down

January 14, 2017

Why This Nuclear Engineer Says Every Nuke Plant in the US Should Be Shut Down Yesterday From an Article by Karl Grossman, Common Dreams, January 13, 2017 The good—the very good—energy news is that the Indian Point nuclear power plants 26 miles north of New York City will be closed in the next few years [...]

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Carbon Fee: Our Last Chance to Survive Climate Change!

January 13, 2017

Will We Miss Our Last Chance to Survive Climate Change? From an Article by Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, December 22, 2016 In the late 1980s, James Hansen became the first scientist to offer unassailable evidence that burning fossil fuels is heating up the planet. In the decades since, as the world has warmed, the ice [...]

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Former EPA Head says to Confront Trump on the Climate, Dump Scott Pruitt

January 12, 2017

INTERVIEW: Republican Who Led EPA Urges Confronting Trump on Climate From an Interview by Christian Schwagerl, Yale Environment 360, January 12, 2017 . William K. Reilly, a Republican and one-time head of the EPA, is dismayed that a climate change skeptic has been named to lead his former agency. William K. Reilly, who was head [...]

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POTUS — The Irreversible Momentum of Clean Energy

January 11, 2017

POLICY FORUM — The irreversible momentum of clean energy From: Barack Obama, President of the United States, Washington, DC 20500, USA. Science, Policy Forum, January 9, 2017; DOI: 10.1126/science. ABSTRACT – The release of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) due to human activity is increasing global average surface air temperatures, disrupting weather patterns, [...]

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Some Ten (10) Natural Gas Fired Electric Power Plants Coming to Ohio

January 10, 2017

SLIDESHOW: Here are the 10 natural gas plants under development in Ohio From an Article by Tom Knox, Columbus Business First, January 9, 2017 VIEW SLIDESHOW 10 photos Ohio is home to a number of coal-fired power plant retirements. Shale oil and natural gas fields, meanwhile, have attracted drillers and pipeline companies. Coal is still the [...]

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Marcellus Shale Gas to Fire Electricity Generation in WV, PA & OH

January 10, 2017

Sunbury pipeline nears completion in Pennsylvania From an Article by Marie Cusick, PA StateImpact NPR, December 22, 2016 The coal plant in Shamokin Dam delivered electricity to the region for more than six decades. It closed in 2014. Next to it, a new natural gas power plant is under construction. The Sunbury Pipeline will feed [...]

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Energy Companies Need to Face Up to Local, National and Global Issues

January 10, 2017

Fossil fuel prospects are promoted by narrow-minded and irresponsible developers Essay by S. Tom Bond, Retired Chemist & Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV  What are the prospects for oil and gas?  We are subject to an overload of happy talk about the subject with little reality to counter it.  It is jobs, jobs, jobs to [...]

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Climate Change is Melting Polar Ice Caps & Heating the Oceans

January 9, 2017

A Really Big Crack In An Antarctic Ice Shelf Just Got Bigger From a News Report of WAMU,  Rae Ellen Bichell, National Public Radio, January 6, 2017 Right now, a big chunk of Antarctic ice is hanging on by a frozen thread. British researchers monitoring the crack in the Larsen C ice shelf say that [...]

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Three (3) Years After the Water Crisis: Where Are We Now?

January 8, 2017

WV Rivers Coalition, et al., to host Charleston press conference Monday! Join WV Rivers Coalition, Advocates for a Safe Water System, OVEC, WV Citizen Action Group, and WV Environmental Council at the WV Capitol Building as we remember the Elk River chemical leak on the 3-year anniversary of the #wvwatercrisis. WV Rivers and Advocates are [...]

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