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Electric resource plans suggest hotly contested path to WV's energy future
Energy and Environment

Electric resource plans suggest hotly contested path to WV's energy future

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
State DEP accepting comments on revised Upper Guyandotte River watershed stream restoration
Energy and Environment

State DEP accepting comments on revised Upper Guyandotte River watershed stream restoration

  • Staff reports
Appalachian coal mine reclamation bonding issues highlighted in new report
Energy and Environment

Appalachian coal mine reclamation bonding issues highlighted in new report

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
Forest Service approves MVP crossing through Jefferson National Forest, triggering lawsuit and frustration from environmentalists
Energy and Environment

Forest Service approves MVP crossing through Jefferson National Forest, triggering lawsuit and frustration from environmentalists

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
Plans for Berkeley County solar facility keeps WV's solar energy momentum going
Energy and Environment

Plans for Berkeley County solar facility keeps WV's solar energy momentum going

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
Minden residents, advocates voice frustration with EPA cleanup response in conference call with agency officials
News

Minden residents, advocates voice frustration with EPA cleanup response in conference call with agency officials

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Jan 8, 2021

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency representative who conducted a 90-minute conference call Thursday evening to update the public on the remedial investigation into a toxic pollution site in Minden that has beleaguered residents there for decades asked each person who had questions abo…

Atlantic Coast Pipeline restoration planned to start later in WV than other states
Energy and Environment

Atlantic Coast Pipeline restoration planned to start later in WV than other states

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Jan 6, 2021

It died six months ago, and its burial will remain intact.

Regulators get plan for undoing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Energy and Environment

Regulators get plan for undoing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

  • By Sarah Rankin The Associated Press
  • Jan 5, 2021

RICHMOND, Va. — The developers of the now-canceled Atlantic Coast Pipeline have laid out plans for how they want to go about unwinding the work that was done for the multistate natural gas project and restoring disturbed land.

AEP consideration of retiring Marshall County coal plant continues trend, rouses both sides of debate over coal's future in WV
Energy and Environment

AEP consideration of retiring Marshall County coal plant continues trend, rouses both sides of debate over coal's future in WV

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Jan 4, 2021

There have been 10 conventional steam coal plants retired in West Virginia since 2005, and there are only nine left in the state, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data.

West Virginia's consumer advocate stepping down
Energy and Environment

West Virginia's consumer advocate stepping down

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Dec 29, 2020

If Jackie Roberts is at a party and someone asks her what she does for a living, she often replies that, if she explained her job, they’d be looking for a way out of the conversation.

Appalachian Power details file request driven by environmental compliance
Energy and Environment

Appalachian Power details file request driven by environmental compliance

  • Staff reports
  • Dec 25, 2020

Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power requested permission Wednesday to make upgrades and recover costs regarding recently revised environmental regulations of ash handling and wastewater discharge systems at the John Amos, Mountaineer and Mitchell plants in West Virginia.

FERC in focus as it approves Mountain Valley Pipeline national forest crossing, considers new request for work in WV
Energy and Environment

FERC in focus as it approves Mountain Valley Pipeline national forest crossing, considers new request for work in WV

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Dec 23, 2020

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has given the Mountain Valley Pipeline a boost toward one end of the project while it considers another request to accommodate further pipeline construction at the other.

Weakened water quality standards remain point of contention as joint legislative committee advances them to full Legislature
Energy and Environment

Weakened water quality standards remain point of contention as joint legislative committee advances them to full Legislature

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Dec 20, 2020

A state legislative committee has advanced revisions to requirements governing West Virginia’s water quality standards that have drawn criticism from environmentalists.

Energy efficiency advocates hope settlement with FirstEnergy subsidiaries holds company accountable when seeking coal plant upgrades
Energy and Environment

Energy efficiency advocates hope settlement with FirstEnergy subsidiaries holds company accountable when seeking coal plant upgrades

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Dec 18, 2020

Electric rates will drop by 3.7% next year for West Virginia customers under a settlement between energy efficiency advocates and FirstEnergy subsidiaries Mon Power and Potomac Edison.

Fatal Belle plant explosion shows federal law doesn't prevent lack of knowledge about new chemicals at facilities
Energy and Environment

Fatal Belle plant explosion shows federal law doesn't prevent lack of knowledge about new chemicals at facilities

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Dec 16, 2020

In August 1985, eight months after the leak of a highly toxic gas called methyl isocyanate from a Union Carbide Corporation pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, that killed thousands and caused permanent disabilities or premature death for many thousands more, an accidental release of aldicarb …

Huntington-based energy service provider announces new acquisition
Business

Huntington-based energy service provider announces new acquisition

  • Staff reports
  • Dec 16, 2020

Energy Services of America, a Huntington-based company that provides contracting services for energy-related companies, announced Wednesday the formation of a new, wholly owned subsidiary.

DEP Secretary Caperton to step down at end of Justice's first term
Energy and Environment

DEP Secretary Caperton to step down at end of Justice's first term

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Dec 15, 2020

West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Austin Caperton is stepping down.

Report suggests WV must embrace renewable energy for economic growth
Energy and Environment

Report suggests WV must embrace renewable energy for economic growth

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Dec 15, 2020

A report from the Center for Energy and Sustainable Development at West Virginia University’s College of Law lays out a roadmap to a future in which West Virginia is powered by renewable energy.

DEP investigating petroleum spill that killed wildlife in creek feeding Lake Chaweva
Energy and Environment

DEP investigating petroleum spill that killed wildlife in creek feeding Lake Chaweva

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Dec 14, 2020

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is investigating an oil spill into a creek that flows into Lake Chaweva in Cross Lanes that was reported Saturday.

WV's two oil, natural gas associations merge
Business

WV's two oil, natural gas associations merge

  • By Fred Pace The Herald-Dispatch
  • Dec 13, 2020

West Virginia’s two oil and natural gas associations have merged into one organization.

By-the-book explosion response still leaves some Belle residents concerned
Kanawha Valley

By-the-book explosion response still leaves some Belle residents concerned

  • By Caity Coyne Staff writer
  • Dec 12, 2020

An explosion at a Belle chemical plant provided locals a vivid reminder of the potential danger looming over their town.

Forest Service supports Mountain Valley Pipeline route through Jefferson National Forest
Energy and Environment

Forest Service supports Mountain Valley Pipeline route through Jefferson National Forest

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Dec 11, 2020

The U.S. Forest Service on Friday issued an environmental impact statement that supports plans for the Mountain Valley Pipeline to pass through the Jefferson National Forest.

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Safety document shows dangers of chemical said to be present in fire after fatal plant explosion
Energy and Environment

Safety document shows dangers of chemical said to be present in fire after fatal plant explosion

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Dec 11, 2020

Kanawha County’s director of emergency management said he received a document in a meeting with Optima Chemical and Chemours Co. representatives in the hours after a fatal explosion at Optima’s facility on the Chemours site in Belle Tuesday night. It reveals more about a chemical that emerge…

Chemicals present in fire after fatal plant explosion, listed in facility inventory don't raise red flags by themselves
Kanawha Valley

Chemicals present in fire after fatal plant explosion, listed in facility inventory don't raise red flags by themselves

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Dec 10, 2020

Chlorinated dry bleach and methanol were present in a fire that burned for two hours after a fatal explosion at the Optima Chemical facility on the Chemours Co.’s site in Belle Tuesday night, according to emergency responders.

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Investigations ensue after one person killed in Belle chemical plant explosion
Energy and Environment

Investigations ensue after one person killed in Belle chemical plant explosion

  • By Caity Coyne and Mike Tony Staff writers
  • Dec 9, 2020

Update: Chemicals present in fire after fatal plant explosion, listed in facility inventory don't raise red flags by themselves

Four injured in Belle chemical plant explosion; shelter-in-place lifted
Energy and Environment

Four injured in Belle chemical plant explosion; shelter-in-place lifted

  • Staff reports
  • Dec 8, 2020

Update: One person killed in Belle chemical plant explosion

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Capito, Manchin among bipartisan group of senators pushing legislation to promote carbon capturing
Energy and Environment

Capito, Manchin among bipartisan group of senators pushing legislation to promote carbon capturing

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Dec 8, 2020

West Virginia’s two U.S. senators signaled support Tuesday for legislation that would build on a 2018 law designed to encourage technological innovation in carbon capture usage and storage.

WV political leaders applaud EPA after it declines to tighten air quality standards, ignores own research
Energy and Environment

WV political leaders applaud EPA after it declines to tighten air quality standards, ignores own research

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Dec 8, 2020

West Virginia political leaders hailed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Monday announcement that it has finalized leaving in place existing air pollution standards for particulate matter, commonly known as soot.

Justice family's coal company agrees to settlement to reduce water pollution, help fund river trail preservation
Energy and Environment

Justice family's coal company agrees to settlement to reduce water pollution, help fund river trail preservation

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Dec 4, 2020

Environmental groups on Thursday filed a pollution settlement with a coal company owned by Gov. Jim Justice’s family. If approved by the federal court, the company would comply with selenium discharge limits and pay $270,000 to the West Virginia Land Trust.

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