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April 22 letters to the editor
Albright Dam removal a win for climate resilience The results of climate change have created uncertainty about the future for young people. With the climate emergency intensifying […]
House OKs mining mutual, bank fossil fuel boycott bills, and others on Friday
MORGANTOWN – Here is a look at some of the other House action on Friday. SB 1, Senate President Craig Blair’s Mining Mutual Insurance Company, generated opposition […]
Senate passes two House economic development bills and a Senate bill to allow county amusement taxes
MORGANTOWN – The state Senate passed a handful of bills on Tuesday, including two House bills aimed at promoting economic development. HB 4084 allows allow advanced recycling […]
Bill to put banks that boycott fossil fuel companies on state treasurer’s restricted list takes another step forward in House Banking
MORGANTOWN — The bill to allow the state treasurer to put financial institutions that openly boycott fossil energy companies on a publicly available Restricted Financial Institution List […]
Senate passes fossil fuel boycott bill; House panel OKs two bills to promote rare earth element extraction from mine water
MORGANTOWN – Legislators moved several energy-related bills on Thursday, dealing with fossil fuels and rare earth elements. The Senate approved SB 262. It allows the state treasurer […]
Guest essay: COP26 or ‘cop-out’: A cry for local action
by Alan D. Bristow The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, was supposed to be the time when countries offered real solutions to […]
Guest essay: Coal still important globally
by Syd S. Peng Much of the world is now in the grips of an energy crisis. Economies coming back to life following the shock of the […]
COP26 failed: What needs to happen
by Peter Kalmus The one thing the climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, made clear is that human society remains in business-as-usual mode, with no meaningful curb on […]
A dangerous fallacy: ‘If they’re polluting, why shouldn’t we?’
It’s an old fallacious argument — a variation of the bandwagon fallacy (“everyone else is doing it”) that goes like this: Everyone else is misbehaving, so why […]
