dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright toured the National Energy Technology Laboratory Morgantown campus on Tuesday, as part of his ongoing tour of all 17 Department of Energy National Laboratories. He saw the facilities – including the ...
Could our unshakeable addiction to plastics be broken? That’s certainly the hope of activists. The U.S. — birthplace of the modern polymers industry, and the biggest producer of its key feedstocks, oil and gas — has joined a bloc supporting a worldwide treaty capping plastics ...
by Quenton King It’s been quite a year, and I don’t mean just 2024. Last month, climate scientists released data showing May was the hottest month on record. More than that, it marked one year of each month being hotter than the last, the first time that has ever happened. The ...
by Charlie Burd, Rob Brundrett and Dave Callahan The recent surge in data centers powering artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced manufacturing throughout our region means a herculean need for new power generation. Technology companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook and Intel, along ...
EPA protects us from fossil fuel industry Anyone who thinks that the Environmental Protection Agency has too much government overreach, as Hoppy Kercheval expressed in his commentary (May 3) must have a death wish. The fossil fuel industry, like all other corporations, is motivated by ...
by Syd Peng It’s not hard to sense that something extraordinary is happening in the United States: Digital technology has been neglected by policymakers in the nation’s energy demand. The evidence can be found in the vast computer-server farms that move and store data and ...