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Most Recent Winds of Change
Final Newsletter
We write to inform you that after 34 years dedicated to protecting the people and environment of West Virginia and the surrounding region, OVEC has made the decision to close its doors. We hope you will join us in reflecting on our decades of community activism and take pride in how you helped make little OVEC a big force for positive change in our region. More
Issues: Coal, Mountaintop removal, Pollution, Racial inequality, Renewable energy
Detailed Archive
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Winds of Change, Summer 2021
Scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s climate (Ed. note: As are all of us!) in every region and across the whole climate system, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report released on August 9. More
Winds of Change, Spring 2021
During the 2021 West Virginia Legislative Session, special interests managed to reintroduce a bill to exempt oil and gas tanks from the Aboveground Storage Tank Act. Read more about it and much more in the Spring 2021 issue of Winds of Change. More
Winds of Change, Winter 2020
OVEC volunteer Dr. Randi Pokladnik and former Vice President Al Gore talk about petrochemicals and climate, and much more in our Winter 20-21 newsletter. More
Issues: Climate change, Mountaintop removal, Petrochemicals, Pro Democracy
Winds of Change, Fall 2020
OVEC has joined a new regional coalition called ReImagine Appalachia to help design a policy blueprint that propels the region towards a sustainable future. More
Issues: Clean elections, Fair courts, Pro Democracy, Transition economy
Winds of Change, Summer 2020
OVEC, the WV Highlands Conservancy, and the Sierra Club have put the WV Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) on notice that we are going to sue the agency due to its mismanagement of the Special Reclamation Fund (SRF), and its related failure to comply with federal reporting requirements. More
Issues: Coal, DEP, Fracking, Water
Winds of Change, Spring 2020
In early March, 26 OVEC volunteers, board, staff members, and supporters gathered at Cedar Lakes in Ripley for a weekend meeting devoted to determining how to kick ASH. If built, the proposed Appalachian Storage Hub (ASH) would be a colossal petrochemical complex for manufacturing primarily single-use plastics, as well as other petroleum byproducts, in the Ohio River Valley region. More
Issues: Appalachian Storage Hub, Clean elections, Fair courts, Pollution, Pro Democracy
Winds of Change, Winter 2019-2020
OVEC's Winter 2019-20 is now online. Check out some of what we have been up to in the last months of the year, and please do remember us in your year-end charitable giving. Your support enables our work! More
Issues: Appalachian Storage Hub, Clean elections, Climate change, Fair courts, Health, Pro Democracy, Water
Winds of Change, Fall 2019
At noon on Tuesday, August 6, dozens of people gathered outside the federal courthouse in downtown Charleston, WV, to mark the 54th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act. More
Issues: Appalachian Storage Hub, Clean elections, Climate change, Coal, Pollution
Winds of Change, Summer 2019
On April 9, about 50 people representing more than a dozen grassroots groups from West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania gathered to show our opposition to the Appalachian Storage and Trading Hub, a petrochemical mega-complex build-out proposed for the Ohio and Kanawha river valleys. More
Issues: Appalachian Storage Hub, Clean elections, Climate change, Fracking, Health, Mountaintop removal, Pipelines
Winds of Change, Spring, 2019
Driving around on a Sunday in early February, I saw dozens of slips just in my little section of the pipeline in Putnam County, but this was definitely the worst. It makes me wonder how many there are in total between Wayne County and Moundsville. More
Issues: Appalachian Storage Hub, Clean elections, Mountaintop removal, Pipelines, Pollution, Water
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If you are a member of OVEC (please do join if you aren’t – your dues keep us going!) you receive our Winds of Change newsletter four times a year via snail mail, unless you have already told us that you’d rather just read the newsletter online. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the WOC snail mailings, contact maryanne@ohvec.org with “WOC subscription” in the subject line.
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