How Stands the Mountain Valley Pipeline?
By John McFerrin In planning the Mountain Valley Pipeline and getting the permits needed, its developers face a fundamental challenge: the pipeline, as proposed, must cross 591 streams in West Virginia, [...]
Spring officially arrived on March 20 here in the highlands. As winter is fading away one finds evidence of the different stages of the annual transition, certainly an annual time [...]
WV Senate Passes DEP-backed Bill Weakening Some Water Quality Standards
By Mike Tony The West Virginia Senate has passed legislative rules on environmental protection that include a weakening of water quality standards for certain carcinogens, sending the rules bundle to [...]
by Marion Harless Wisconsin’s Senator Gaylord Nelson thought it would be wonderful to have a student led teach-in on the environment at the nation’s colleges and universities. He put together a [...]
Things get a little bit better for birds
By John McFerrin For a migratory bird, life is no picnic. Many of them travel thousands of miles. Even if they can escape natural predators and overcome exhaustion, they still have to [...]
Low Cost Environmental Summer Camp Invites New Campers, Counselors in June 2021
Camp Waldo is an environmentally focused, nonprofit summer camp in southern West Virginia. It invites campers and counselors to apply to join us at for a three-week overnight camp from July [...]
West Virginia Deciding How to Measure Clean Water
By John McFerrin West Virginia is considering how it will determine whether the water in streams and rivers is clean. The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy and the West Virginia Rivers Coalition [...]
West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Seeks Program Director
WVHC, now in its 54th year, currently serves approximately 1,500 members and supporters with a strong history of promoting, encouraging, and working for the conservation and an appreciation of the natural resources [...]
Plenty of Problems for Proposed Experimental Mine
By Jeanne Bell The final Environmental Impact Statement is scheduled for release mid-summer 2021 for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (a part of the Center for Disease [...]
What’s Up with the Legislature?
By John McFerrin As this issue of The Highlands Voice goes to print the West Virginia Legislature is entering its last, frenetic days. Pending bills compete for attention, a spot on the agenda, [...]
By Cindy Rank As portions of the world – including the U.S. – begin to seriously look beyond coal, regions once dominated by coal and coal mining are now facing [...]
Last month we had a review of Lenore McComas Coberly’s new book, From the West Virginia Hills. Unfortunately, the address to order the book was wrong. The correct address is: Lenore McComas Coberly [...]
