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Energy and the Fall Review
Each year the Fall Review allows us time to look at one topic in a little more depth, and to hear speakers we don’t otherwise get to…
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Candy Darter/Hellbender Snorkeling Outing Successe
By Cory Chase After a couple years of hibernation, the Conservancy’s outings program has been emerging back into the hills and hollers of the…
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Thoughts from our president
July has been a very active month at the Conservancy as you will see in many of the articles in this month’s Highlands Voice and the efforts…
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Should the Mountain Valley Pipeline Get an Extension
By John McFerrin The developers of the Mountain Valley Pipeline have asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for an extension of its deadline…
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States Get More Say over Water Permits
By John McFerrin States, including West Virginia, have gained more control over the issuance of permits under the federal Clean Water Act.
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Afternoon Town
By Lenore Coberly A squirrel sees me, stops each cheek stretched by an acorn, then disappears under a…
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An Unsettled Settlement and One Solution
By Hugh Rogers The West Virginia Division of Highways has taken note of local opposition to its Revised Original Preferred Alternative (ROPA) for Corridor…
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Royal Mimicry: Entomology Meets Etymology
By Katherine McFerrin and John McFerrin Summertime in North America is the breeding season for the Monarch butterfly, West Virginia’s state butterfly. Monarchs have…
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Boondoggle: The Appalachian Blue Hydrogen and Carbon Capture Hub
Why the oil and gas industry, the Biden administration, the AFL-CIO, and even some environmental groups support spending billions of taxpayer dollars on an economic and…
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Doing Something about Abandoned Gas Wells
Do you have an oil and gas well operated by Diversified Energy on your property? If it is not producing, we want to hear from you –…
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