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Newspaper: AEP Retains Drilling Rights Under New Ohio Park
By: Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Thousands of acres in eastern Ohio the state is buying to promote recreation and conservation may be drilled for oil and natural gas, an Ohio newspaper… Read More
![The Flint Water Plant tower in 2016.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ap_19035577600604-17c291d04cd7f85d4258f387ac538792a5f347c0-e1570812335948-900x422.jpg)
EPA Proposes New Regulations For Lead In Drinking Water
By: Paolo Zialcita | NPR
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The new proposal is being criticized for not proactively replacing lead service lines across the nation. It also keeps the same threshold for lead in drinking water that the U.S. currently has.
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No Bidders for Coal Leases Inside Wayne National Forest
By: Associated Press
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (AP) — The federal government says it received no bids during a competitive lease sale for coal underneath about 430 acres of Ohio’s Wayne National Forest. The Bureau… Read More
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Burn Bans in Effect Across Kentucky
By: Associated Press
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GOLDEN POND, Ky. (AP) — Counties across Kentucky are issuing burn bans amid dry conditions. This week, two counties along the Land Between the Lakes, Lyon and Livingston, are imposing… Read More
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Justice Adds Exclusion to Ban on Outdoor Burning
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has amended his ban on outdoor burning to add an exclusion that would allow certain fires at federal and state recreation… Read More
![Environmental groups posted signs in Shadyside, OH.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/file2-2-e1569273054562-900x422.jpeg)
Settlement Reached Over Proposed Ohio Cracker Plant Air Permit
By: Brittany Patterson | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Environmental groups have reached a settlement agreement with a petrochemical company in Ohio to beef up air pollution controls at a proposed petrochemical plant along the Ohio River. Thailand-based PTT Global Chemical… Read More
![A black vulture sits a top of a tree](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/AP_18166702798634-e1568904418634-900x422.jpg)
Federal Biologist: Black Vultures are Invading West Virginia
By: Associated Press
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BUCKHANNON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal biologist says federally protected vultures are invading West Virginia, having migrated from Central and South America about 45 years ago and now settling up… Read More
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Land Trust Purchases 860-Acre Site in West Virginia
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – The West Virginia Land Trust has purchased a site in Tucker County that includes the Moon Rocks hiking and mountain biking area. The Dominion Post reports… Read More
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2 West Virginia Mountain Valley Pipeline Protesters Arrested
By: Associated Press
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LAWN, W.Va. (AP) — Authorities say two people who locked themselves to equipment at a Mountain Valley Pipeline work site have been arrested. WOAY-TV reports 22-year-old Andrew J. Saltzberg and 21-year-old… Read More
![The Environmental Protection Agency has released a proposed rule that could roll back requirements on detecting and plugging methane leaks at oil and gas facilities.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ap_19241418328987-89b95911c94f9107dba4153ff4821eab2bcd974a-e1567175057905-900x422.jpg)
EPA Aims To Roll Back Limits On Methane Emissions From Oil And Gas Industry
By: Merrit Kennedy | NPR
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“This would be a huge step backward,” said one environmental advocate. “It would cause greatly increased pollution.” The Trump administration says it will help the oil and gas industry save money.
![W.H. Sammis Coal Plant in Stratton, Ohio.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wh_sammis_power_plant_-_firstenergy-e1554831003255-900x422.jpg)
Advocates Say Climate Change, Children’s Health Issues Intertwine
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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A new report from the Ohio Environmental Council and Policy Matters Ohio says climate change has significant negative impacts on children’s health, which they say highlights the urgency to reduce… Read More
![A pile of plastic bags grows hourly at Omni Recycling, a materials recovery facility in Pitman, N.J. The bags can get caught in the conveyor belts and equipment and gum up the recycling process.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/nj-recycling-5-d2624905429ce1cf6fb855ee80f67d26d26bb1ca-e1566397383693-900x422.jpg)
More U.S. Towns Are Feeling The Pinch As Recycling Becomes Costlier
By: Rebecca Davis | NPR
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The U.S. recycling industry is facing a quandary: Too much of the plastic we use can’t be recycled, and taxpayers increasingly are on the hook for paying for all that trash to hit the landfills.
![A bald eagle prepares to take off from a pine tree in Pembroke Pines, Fla. The eagle population rebounded after protections put in place under the Endangered Species Act.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ap_120208051371-b1d96071566896843d076890670c4ada862e12ea-e1565795591198-900x422.jpg)
Trump Administration Makes Major Changes To Protections For Endangered Species
By: Nathan Rott | NPR
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Interior Secretary David Bernhardt says the revisions will make the landmark conservation law more efficient. Critics say it will hurt endangered plants and animals as they face mounting threats.
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Groups Ask NC Regulators to Revoke 2018 Pipeline Permit
By: Associated Press
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Environmental groups that promote renewable energy want North Carolina regulators to cancel a key state water quality permit issued to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Leaders… Read More
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Mussel Woman: Biologist Passes Along Pearls Of Wisdom About Threatened Mussels
By: Brittany Patterson | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Janet Clayton is standing thigh-deep in a back channel of the Elk River. Clad in a wetsuit and knee pads, the silver-haired biologist with the West Virginia Division of Natural… Read More
![Cattle graze in pasture formed by cleared rainforest land in Pará, Brazil. A new online tool makes it easier for food companies to detect this kind of land-clearing by their suppliers.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/gettyimages-184252072-3787f12eb39516b672c9c73fd257b84f428496d1-e1564675517218-900x422.jpg)
Don’t Cut Those Trees — Big Food Might Be Watching
By: Dan Charles | NPR
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Dozens of food companies have promised to stop their suppliers from clearing forests in order to grow crops or graze cattle. Now the companies have a tool to monitor those farmers from space.
![A common guillemot (Uria aalge) brings a sprat to feed to its chick. The laying dates of this species were followed for 19 consecutive years on the Isle of May, off the coast of southeast Scotland. According to a new paper in Nature Communications, many birds are adapting to climate change — but probably not fast enough.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/guillemot-sprat-28-jun-05-12-a31cef0a34ca214e07a4010b2c27de104a247be7-e1564156586998-900x422.jpg)
Birds Are Trying To Adapt To Climate Change — But Is It Too Little, Too Late?
By: Pien Huang | NPR
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By breeding and migrating earlier, some birds are adapting to climate change. But it’s probably not happening fast enough for some species to survive, according to new research.
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Power Plant: How A Grass Might Generate Fuel And Help Fix Damaged Mine Lands
By: Liam Niemeyer | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Down bumpy back roads deep in central West Virginia, a flat, bright green pasture opens up among the rolling hills of coffee-colored trees. Wildflowers and butterflies dot the pasture, but… Read More
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Trump Seizes On Soggy Paper Straws As Campaign Issue: ‘Make Straws Great Again’
By: Jessica Taylor | NPR
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The president’s reelection campaign is selling reusable and recycled straws in its 2020 online store, because, it says, “Liberal paper straws don’t work.”
![Flames and smoke emerge from the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in Philadelphia on June 21. Experts say the explosions could have been far more devastating if deadly hydrogen fluoride had been released.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ap_19172359603324-79a33f0a85bc306df1e14c6a6a3c2a95015a8f33-e1563556078724-900x422.jpg)
Refinery Explosions Raise New Warnings About Deadly Chemical
By: Susan Phillips | NPR
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Chemical experts say recent refinery explosions could have been far more devastating if deadly hydrogen fluoride was released. Some are calling for a ban on the chemical.
![W.H. Sammis Coal Plant in Stratton, Ohio.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wh_sammis_power_plant_-_firstenergy-e1554831003255-900x422.jpg)
“Death Spiral.” How A Carbon Tax Could End Some Coal Towns … Or Fund A New Future
By: Sydney Boles | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Declining coal tax revenues place coal-reliant counties in Appalachia at risk of fiscal collapse, according to new research from the centrist Brookings Institution and Columbia University. Policies designed to prevent… Read More
![The Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant in Glenrock, Wyo. The Trump administration is replacing one of President Obama's signature climate plans with a weaker version that could let some coal plants stay open longer.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ap_19087671451873-32b5b4e6a6dec8023e179289ff15be3490b75f70-e1560960397139-900x422.jpg)
Trump Administration Weakens Climate Plan To Help Coal Plants Stay Open
By: Jeff Brady | NPR
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The Trump administration is replacing one of President Obama’s signature plans to address climate change. It could help some coal-fired power plants, but likely won’t slow the industry’s decline.
![In California's Mojave Desert sits First Solar Inc.'s Desert Sunlight Solar Farm. California is among the states leading the decarbonization charge.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/gettyimages-166895133-4fdd84026b93e20f18fac7df9f589781999d3a95-e1560877422839-900x422.jpg)
Going ‘Zero Carbon’ Is All The Rage. But Will It Slow Climate Change?
By: Nathan Rott | NPR
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Cities, states, businesses and electric utilities are setting ambitious goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But it’s not clear exactly how they’ll do that or whether it will actually work.
![Anne Schauer-Gimenez (from left) Allison Pieja and Molly Morse of Mango Materials stand next to the biopolymer fermenter at a sewage treatment plant next to San Francisco Bay. The fermenter feeds bacteria the methane they need to produce a biological form of plastic.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/img_4362-best-copy-a35437925e0ddc84ef5fc4764a029dafef74a51a-e1560786747300-900x422.jpg)
Replacing Plastic: Can Bacteria Help Us Break The Habit?
By: Christopher Joyce | NPR
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Entrepreneurs are eager to find substitutes for plastic that naturally degrade. One option is a “natural” plastic made by microbes and then eaten by them. But the process is still in the early days.
![The deep ocean is filled with sea creatures like giant larvaceans. They're actually the size of tadpoles, but they're surrounded by a yard-wide bubble of mucus that collects food — and plastic. "We found small plastic pieces in every single larvacean that we examined from different depths across the water column," says researcher Anela Choy.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/larvacean-bf6afb160bae8e04f559a678500d12ef04ceec56-e1559829595583-900x422.jpg)
Microplastics Have Invaded The Deep Ocean — And The Food Chain
By: Christopher Joyce | NPR
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Giant gyres of plastic in the ocean grab headlines, but it’s the tiny bits of plastic that scare scientists. And they’ve made their way everywhere, a new study finds – including our seafood.
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