HELP PROTECT THREE MAJOR RIVERS — Monongahela, Allegheny & Ohio

October 12, 2021

There is Too Much Risk in Barging Fracking Waste on the Three Rivers, Mon-Al-Oh From the PT Protect Group, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, October 2021 Please sign onto the petition to the US Coast Guard and US Army Corps of Engineers regarding the barging of fracking waste on the Three Rivers! We, the undersigned residents of [...]

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The Time Has Come to Plan on Living With COVID-19 for Foreseeable Future

October 11, 2021

Pandemic Not Going Away Anytime Soon, says Expert From an Article by Michael M. Barrick, Appalachian Chronicle, October 10, 2021 HOUSTON – Dr. Paul Klotman, President, CEO & Dean of the Baylor College of Medicine conceded in his latest weekly COVID-19 update that he has given up hope that the nation will develop plans to [...]

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Ancient Mound Builders Left Behind Many Artifacts to Reveal the Past

October 10, 2021

Who Were the ‘Mound Builders’? They Built the Many Ancient Mounds in the Ohio Valley & Region The Moundbuilders’ Art: A Confluence of ‘Ingenuity, Industry, and Elegance‘ on October 9, 2021 From c. 500 B.C. to c. 1650 A.D., the Adena, Hopewell, and Fort Ancient Native American cultures built mounds and enclosures in the Ohio [...]

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Native Indian Sites Populate WV and Regional River Valleys & Creeks

October 9, 2021

THE MONONGAHELA CULTURE from Wikipedia on the World Wide Web, October 9, 2021 The Monongahela culture were a Native American cultural manifestation of Late Woodland peoples from AD 1050 to 1635 in present-day western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia. The culture was named by Mary Butler in 1939 for the Monongahela River, [...]

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PA Attorney General: 48 Criminal Charges to Mariner East 2 Pipeline

October 8, 2021

Mariner East 2 pipeline builder Sunoco/Energy Transfer responsible for polluted waters of Penna. From an Article by Bill Rettew, Reading Eagle, October 5, 2021 UPPER UWCHLAN — Mariner East 2 pipeline builder Sunoco/Energy Transfer had been charged with 48 counts of environmental crimes, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro said Tuesday at Marsh Creek State Park [...]

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“BLUE HYDROGEN” Brings Serious Shame to Senator Joe Manchin

October 7, 2021

“Hydrogen is Not Always Clean Hydrogen” — Blue versus Green Hydrogen From the Opinion Editorial in the Morgantown Dominion Post, October 2, 2021 If we have any complaints about the still-pending (as of this writing) bipartisan infrastructure package, it would be the $8 billion Sen. Joe Manchin slipped in there for blue hydrogen energy. Hydrogen [...]

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Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) Will Not Save The EARTH

October 6, 2021

Top Five (5) Reasons Carbon Capture And Storage (CCS) Is Bogus From an Article by Mark Schlosberg and Peter Hart, Food & Water Watch, October 1, 2021 The idea of using technology to take carbon out of the air may at first blush sound like an attractive solution to our escalating climate crisis. But if [...]

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Reconciliation Bill in United States Congress Needed to Save Earth

October 5, 2021

Why Is the Reconciliation Bill Essential for Climate Action? From an Article of the Evergreen Action Blog, September 01, 2021 The United States Government seeks to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas pollution by at least 50% below 2005 levels by 2030 — an ambitious target we can meet only with bold and immediate action. Democrats are [...]

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§ ANNUAL (ZOOM) MEETING — West Virginia Environmental Council 10/7/21

October 4, 2021

WEST VIRGINIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL [WVEC] WVEC Annual Meeting — This Coming Thursday, October 7th at 6:00 PM This is a friendly reminder that West Virginia Environmental Council’s annual meeting is happening THIS Thursday, October 7th from 6 to 8 PM. I wanted to reach out to our WV Citizen Action Groups, WVCAG & WVCAEF members [...]

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Southwest Virginia Developing Diverse Alternative Energy Sources

October 3, 2021

Can Southwest Virginia remake itself as a laboratory for renewables? From an Article by Sarah Vogelsong, Virginia Mercury, September 20, 2021 NORTON — In September 2020, the highwall came crashing down. For decades, the more than 75-foot-high remnant of surface mining had dominated the eastern entry to Norton, looming over the intersection of Routes 23 [...]

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