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PARKERSBURG — Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action is celebrating Mother Earth throughout April. “Our featured events for the month revolve around a great documentary, ‘Kiss the Ground,'” said Adeline Bailey, Climate Action member. “We have joined with Interfaith Power and Light, who have offered a free online viewing period for home viewing from April 10 through April 25 thanks to a special arrangement with ‘Kiss the Ground’ and Roco films. All online viewers must register with IPL.” According to Interfaith Power and Light, “Kiss the Ground” is a new film how about how regenera...

Sen. Markey, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Civilian Climate Corps for Jobs, Justice to Rebuild U.S. Targeted News Service (Press Releases) WASHINGTON, April 20, 2021: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) today introduced the Civilian Climate Corps for Jobs and Justice Act, which establishes a Civilian Climate Corps (CCC) administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service within AmeriCorps. This legislation updates, modernizes, and expands the concept of the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps: ensuring that all Americans who want to participate may do so, regardless of ra...

editorial@newsandsentinel.com Andrew Whitehead, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Association of Religion Data Archives at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, and Samuel Perry, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma, wrote a book last year entitled “Taking America Back For God: Christian Nationalism in the United States.” Whitehead and Perry define Christian nationalism as “a cultural framework that idealizes and advocates a fusion of Christianity with American civic ...

From staff reports PARKERSBURG — A local environmental group supports a federal court’s ruling overturning a Trump administration rule that loosened regulations for greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-fuel-fired power plants. The Affordable Clean Energy Rule promulgated last year by the Environmental Protection Agency to replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan on carbon dioxide emissions was flawed, an appeals court for the District of Columbia said this week. The decision sends the rule back to the EPA and reinstates the Clean Power Plan that requires, among other things, reductions of c...

tbennett@newsandsentinel.com WASHINGTON — With Georgia going blue in Tuesday’s Senate runoff and giving the Democratic Party the majority leader in the U.S. Senate, Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., will become the Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Manchin has spent the previous two years as the Ranking Member of the Democratic Committee Members of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and will replace current Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action Chairman Eric Engle said Manchin is the right person for the job due to his previou...