• Donate Now
  • Join Us

Logo Logo

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Join/Renew
  • Store
  • Highlands Voice
  • Events

Strange Doings by Department of Environmental Protection in Eastern Panhandle

Archives: October 2020
  • Strange Doings by Department of Environmental Protection in Eastern Panhandle

    Posted by danrad on October 1, 2020

    By Christine Wimer, President Jefferson County Foundation It is time for the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to stop catering to corporations and start protecting…


    Continue reading
  • Hearing on Water Quality Rules Turns into Nothing

    Posted by danrad on October 1, 2020

    A September 23 hearing of the Legislative Rulemaking Review Committee on proposed water quality standards proved anticlimactic as the rules were taken off the agenda.


    Continue reading
  • Learn the Straight Scoop on Climate Change

    Posted by danrad on October 1, 2020

    Late last month, the West Virginia Climate Alliance, an emerging coalition of environmental, civil rights, faith-based and civic organizations, released A Citizen’s Guide to Climate Change. The Guide…


    Continue reading
  • Headwater

    Posted by danrad on October 1, 2020

    By Jack Slocomb Seneca Creek rises up out of ancient, wrinkled folds of earth, out of timelessness, an immense continuity.             When…


    Continue reading
  • Comfort

    Posted by danrad on October 1, 2020

    By Jack Slocomb Must be that turn of year, days more dimly drawn, nib of freeze in the…


    Continue reading
  • New West Virginia Land Trust preserve a Mammoth undertaking

    Posted by danrad on October 1, 2020

    By Rick Steelhammer A 5,000-acre expanse of woodland and former surface mines along the Kanawha-Fayette County line east of Mammoth is being repurposed as…


    Continue reading
  • Book News: Death in Mud Lick by Eric Eyre

    Posted by danrad on October 1, 2020

    Reviewed by Cindy Ellis A book on the opioid crisis might seem a stretch for readers interested in issues of the West Virginia Highlands…


    Continue reading
  • Meanwhile, in the Jefferson National Forest

    Posted by danrad on October 1, 2020

    So much for recent Corps and Fish and Wildlife actions.  Also, on Friday, September 25th, the U.S. Forest Service released its proposal for the 303-mile pipeline to pass…


    Continue reading
  • Groups Object to Mountain Valley Pipeline Stream Crossings

    Posted by danrad on October 1, 2020

    In May, 2020, The Highlands Voice reported on a United States District Court in Montana that had ruled that the United States Army Corps of Engineers had improperly allowed…


    Continue reading
  • A Tale of Two Plans

    Posted by danrad on October 1, 2020

    The accompanying story discusses proposed regulations that would diminish the role of the National Forest Service in approving oil and gas development in the National Forests.  Diminishing the…


    Continue reading
  • 1
  • 2

All Rights Reserved

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Join/Renew
  • Store
  • Highlands Voice
  • Events