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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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Appalachian Power Weighs in on Carbon Capture
Earlier this year The Highlands Voice was home to a mini debate on the usefulness of carbon capture and storage as a tool to slow climate change. The December, 2021,…
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Sticking Up for Wildlife
The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy has joined with the American Bird Conservancy and numerous other groups in a formal request to the United States Department of the…
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