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Making a Difference: Practical Actions That Individuals Can Take To Reduce Their Impact on Climate
According to data from Princeton University, 30 percent of the reduction in greenhouse gases as result of the IRA will be individuals taking action: installing heat pumps, buying EVs,…
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It’s Getting Impossible to Beat the Heat
By Perry Bryant If you think that it’s been abnormally hot in West Virginia lately, you’d be right. Consider this summer in Charleston: June…
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Making a Difference: Practical Actions That Individuals Can Take To Reduce Their Impact on Climate – Food, Reuse & Recycle, Forestry
Food While estimates vary, as much as 30 percent of food produced is not eaten. Any organic material that ends up in a landfill…
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How to Make Your Home Energy Efficient
In passing the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the United States Congress made the largest investment in clean energy ever. This historic legislation is projected to invest almost…
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King Coal, Don’t You Lose Any Sleep?
By Andrew Young Part one in this series provided a brief overview of the harmful impacts that a handful of strip mines and coal…
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Public Service Commission Considering Crippling Solar Power
By John McFerrin The West Virginia Public Service Commission is considering a proposal by First Energy (parent company of Mon Power) to reduce the…
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Opportunities of a Lifetime: Energy Efficiency in West Virginia under the Inflation Reduction Act
By Perry Bryant The Inflation Reduction Act established two energy efficiency rebate programs to transform households’ energy usage: the Electrification and Appliance Rebate program…
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Protecting America’s Remaining Biodiversity: How a Coal Company and Regulatory Indifference Jeopardize the Candy Darter
By Andrew Young Situated just southeast of Richwood, West Virginia, near Cranberry, the Laurel Creek and South Fork of the Cherry River watersheds harbor…
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Making a Difference: New Climate Guide Available from WVHC
In April, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy’s climate change committee published its first edition of a new publication, Making a Difference: Practical Actions That Individuals Can Take…
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The Cost of Renewables Versus the True Cost of Coal
By Perry Bryant Last year, Charlette Lane, Chairwoman of the state’s Public Service Commission, wrote an op ed in the Charleston Gazette–Mail claiming that…
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