MORGANTOWN – One message everyone at WVU's Evolving Energy Conference agreed on Thursday morning was that the energy transition is a tag team effort. Industry makes the actual advances. But government plays a role in terms of regulations, cash and other incentives. Andrew Robinson, ...
MORGANTOWN — “Beyond Coal” and “Beyond Gas” have been catchphrases signifying the generally adversarial nature of the clean energy transition in West Virginia. But “Beyond Despair” would be a good catchphrase for the spirit of WVU's Evolving Energy Conference taking place ...
Back in 2017, when then-President Donald Trump pulled America from the Paris Climate Agreement, cities across the nation took climate action into their own hands. Morgantown joined the National Mayors Climate Agenda and pledged to reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions by 26%-28% from ...
With apologies to Kermit the Frog, it’s not easy being green. The Supreme Court last week diminished the power of unelected bureaucrats to effectively make law. A 6-3 majority ruled the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the power to set standards on greenhouse gas ...
MORGANTOWN — Legislators took a dive Monday morning into a different realm of green energy: battery storage. This isn't batteries for your Chevy Volt. It's grid-level storage that can support not only the obvious wind and solar, but coal- and gas-fired generation, too. Members of the ...
America needs more civics classes We need more civics, history and government classes in our schools. When you compare the annual federal budgets for education, as a nation, for every $50 we spend on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), we spend 5 cents on civics. After years ...