In the USA Today, Indigenous leader Crystal Cavalier and climate scientist Michael Mann team up for this op-ed calling out the Mountain Valley Pipeline as a nail in America’s climate coffin and environmental injustice.
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Biden must stop methane pipelines to deliver on climate change and environmental justice
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WV Study Connects Acid Rain to Global Temperature
West Virginia University Ph.D. candidate Joe Carrara found that increased acid rain affects the rate of carbon dioxide returned to the atmosphere.
Federal Support for Clean Energy Financing and other shorts
Federal support for clean energy financing, carbon emissions from coal mine drainage, new pollution controls for a proposed natural gas plant and more short stories.
TAGS: abandoned mine lands carbon dioxide Coal mining Economic diversification Energy Efficiency natural gas pipelines Renewable Energy rural electric cooperatives Virginia
’80s Flashback: Dr. Hansen’s carbon dioxide warning
On this date in 1988, Dr. James Hansen of NASA testified about the scientific evidence clearly linking carbon dioxide to global climate shifts before a Congressional committee. But Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry Be Happy” was one of the top tunes of the time and that attitude drowned out climate scientists for years. Twenty-six years later, America is beginning to take Hansen’s warning seriously.
