ALERT — (Unneeded) Experimental Mine Proposed for WV Highlands

August 3, 2021

Public Hearing on Experimental Underground Mine on August 5th Action Alert from the WV Environmental Council, August 1, 2021 We request your support in stopping the CDC NIOSH Experimental Mine facility from being placed in Mace, WV. The site under consideration is not suitable for this project. Please ask the WV DEP or the EPA [...]

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Essential Infrastructure for West Virginia Includes Clean Water Systems

August 2, 2021

Guest essay: Congress needs to deliver on clean water for West Virginia From an Opinion Editorial by Delegate Evan Hansen, Morgantown Dominion Post, August 1, 2021 From lead pipes to dirty drinking water, West Virginians have been forced to put up with aging, unreliable water infrastructure for decades. Now, our communities are paying the price [...]

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PFAS “Forever Chemicals” Should Never Be Used in the Environment

August 1, 2021

Are we being kept safe from ‘forever chemicals’ injected into fracking sites? From an Article by David Bond, The Guardian, July 21, 2021 Not willing to rest their laurels on the theft of the future, the fossil fuel industry is now salting the earth with forever chemicals. In a bombshell exposé from Physicians for Social [...]

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WE ARE BEING WARNED, Says 14,000 Scientists: “Climate Emergency”

July 31, 2021

Ignoring climate change will yield ‘untold suffering,’ panel of 14,000 scientists warns From an Article by Brandon Specktor, Live Science, July 28, 2021 The International Space Station flies over a city at night. Going around the Earth is an indication that whole Earth phenomena are now facing humanity. Human activity may be pushing the climate [...]

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Redistricting for US Representatives and WV Delegates Under Discussion

July 30, 2021

https://mountainstatespotlight.org/2021/06/29/west-virginia-lawmakers-redistricting/ West Virginia lawmakers prepare to draw the map that will determine their political futures From the Article by Ian Karbal, Mountain State Spotlight, June 29, 2021 State lawmakers are set to begin the process of redrawing the lines that help determine who represents West Virginians in the statehouse and in the U.S. House of [...]

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The Concept of a Carbon Tax Has Died After 47 Years

July 28, 2021

Carbon Tax, Beloved Policy to Fix Climate Change, Is Dead at 47 From an Article by Robinson Meyer, Atlantic Magazine, July 20, 2021 The American carbon tax, an alluringly simple policy once hailed by environmentalists, scholars, and politicians as a cure-all for climate change that, for all its elegance in economic models, could not overcome [...]

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The Urgency to Limit Climate Change Supersedes Politics

July 27, 2021

Climate change won’t wait for GOP to agree Letter to Editor by Betsy Lawson, Morgantown Dominion Post, Sunday, July 25, 2021 It’s not often a West Virginian has the power to make a profound impact on the world, but Sen. Manchin is in that position now. With two huge bills coming up (infrastructure and the [...]

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Another Report on Natural Gas Bust in Central Appalachia (OH, PA, WV)

July 26, 2021

Natural gas production boom was a bust for Appalachia, report urges economic transition From an Article by Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette Mail, July 21, 2021 Appalachia’s natural gas boom turned out to be an economic bust that local and state officials can rebound from if they embrace the rising clean energy economy. That’s the bottom [...]

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Climate Change is Supercharging Western Forest Fires — Underpaid Firefighters & Overstretched Budgets

July 25, 2021

President Biden announces more resources for tackling wildfires, but experts say a new approach is needed From an Article by Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, July 1, 2021 Heat waves have toppled temperature records across the nation, and firefighters are actively battling 48 large blazes that have consumed more than half a million acres in 12 [...]

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The Mountain Valley Pipeline [MVP] Would Be Out-of-Place in VA & WV

July 24, 2021

THE “WHOLE STORY” of the Mountain Valley Pipeline From a Submitted Essay by Thomas Hadwin, Roanoke Times, July 18, 2021 I have read with interest the various community opinions about the Mountain Valley Pipeline. As a former electric and gas utility executive, I am very familiar with the challenges involved in creating the energy facilities [...]

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