On Climate Change and the Arc of History
By John McFerrin Even if we are past February--the month of predictions, the month that opens with Groundhog Day when we all at least pretend to listen to the weather [...]
April has passed with over a full year of dealing with the restrictions associated with COVID-19, even though many have now received the vaccine. Although the coronavirus has many of us still [...]
Some Welcome (but far away) Relief for Birds
The Bird-Safe Buildings Act has been re-introduced in Congress. It would require that new or substantially modified federal buildings be constructed to make them less of a hazard to migratory birds. [...]
What’s Happening with the Mountaineer Express Pipeline
By Cynthia D. Ellis Our editor prompted me to write about what is new with the MXP…the Mountaineer XPress Pipeline…that mega pipeline that slashed through 14 counties in western West [...]
Dolly Sods Project Moves Closer to Action
The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Dolly Sods project is getting close to the point where we can begin calling for volunteers for the first phase of activity, which will be [...]
New Reporting on Fracking and Public Health
By John McFerrin The Environmental Health News has announced the results of the effects of hydraulic fracturing (aka fracking) on public health. The results were dramatic. The goal of the reporting [...]
It must be spring; the woodpeckers are drumming. Woodpeckers make two distinct types of sounds. One is the irregular pecking, with a couple of thumps, a moment of silence, and then [...]
By Rick Webb The candy darter is a brightly colored 2 to 3-inch fish of mountain streams in the Gauley and New River watersheds of Virginia and West Virginia. Streams [...]
Tree buds a bloomin Spring is a zoomin To turn the world green The leaves will be poppin There just ain’t no stoppin That photosynthetic scene Tree roots are a [...]
Conservancy Votes to Support Climate Change Legislation
By Perry Bryant In late March, President Biden proposed an infrastructure initiative that included major provisions addressing the climate crisis. Central to the President’s proposal on climate reform is a [...]
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, trapping heat in the atmosphere 30 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100-year time frame. But unlike carbon dioxide that can impact the [...]
New Climate Goal for the US, Will Others Follow?
On Earth Day, President Biden announced a new United States goal for meeting our obligations under the Paris Climate Agreement. The United States will reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by [...]
By John McFerrin Brood X of the seventeen year cicadas will be emerging in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia in late May. This is happening only in the eastern [...]
By John McFerrin Once again the Board members (and a couple of their cats) climbed into their little Zoom boxes for the quarterly Board meeting. We are thinking that this may [...]
WV Legislature- Win Some, Lose Some
By WVHC & WV E-Council legislative committees Sort of like a high stakes poker game, the fate of environmental related bills in the West Virginia State Legislature is both chancy [...]
