Facing criticism for its rising emissions, Amazon has announced the creation of a $2 billion venture capital fund for investing in technology that will help it meet its goal of zero emissions by 2040. Read More»
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On June 24, the California Air Resources Board adopted the world’s first zero-emission commercial truck requirements. The rule, which will require truck makers to sell an increasing number of clean trucks in California to replace notoriously…
U.S. Supreme Court Allows the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to Be Built Underneath the Appalachian Trail
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline will carry natural gas 604 miles from West Virginia to North Carolina. On June 15, 2020 the Supreme Court decided…
A climate scientist has compared the 90 hottest and coldest days annually during the past two 30-year periods. In the lower 48 states, what was a 90-day winter now lasts only 81.5 days, and what was a 90-day summer now lasts 96.4 days.
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Stretching across 921,000 acres in 10 West Virginia counties, the Monongahela National Forest encompasses the state’s highest peaks, cleanest streams, largest expanses of forest and most remote tracts of wilderness.
Now the second-largest…
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For a state beholden to the coal and natural gas industries, solar energy generated a lot of heat the 2020 West Virginia legislative session. Two initiatives concerning alternative energy, including solar, were introduced. One survived and will…
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A federal court’s decision striking down a critical Keystone XL permit has broad implications beyond the embattled oil pipeline.
The Wednesday ruling from the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana tossed a nationwide permit the…
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“Ongoing decline on land at this rate will be catastrophic for ecological systems and for humans," said Michigan State University expert Nick Haddad.
KENSINGTON, Maryland — The world has lost more than one quarter of its land-dwelling…
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Amazon to Create $2B Climate Fund
California Adopts Historic Clean Truck Rules
June 2020 Conservation Update
Climate Change Has Produced Longer Summers and Shorter Winters
Now a treasure, Monongahela Forest was a wasteland when created 100 years ago
Solar Energy and the Legislature: A Power Play in Charleston
Keystone XL Ruling Has ‘Sweeping’ Impacts for Other Projects
Earth’s insect population shrinks 27 percent in 30 years
Charles Trump
Craig Blair