West Virginia News

Recent News About U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• PERSONNEL FILE: Mollohan joins Nelson Mullins

  By The West Virginia Record | Monday, May 2, 2011 @ 11:25am

  Mollohan HUNTINGTON -- Former Congressman Alan B. Mollohan of Fairmont has joined the Huntington and Washington, D.C., law offices of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough.

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• Massey, Arch must pay selenium penalties, Chambers rules

  By Steve Korris | Friday, Apr 8, 2011 @ 2:50am

  Chambers HUNTINGTON – Massey Energy and Arch Coal mines have discharged selenium into streams in violation of water quality permits for a year and must pay civil penalties, U.S. District Judge Robert Chambers has ruled.

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• Judge gives Bayer neighbors more time to amend suit

  By Jessica M. Karmasek | Tuesday, Mar 22, 2011 @ 7:24am

  Goodwin CHARLESTON -- A federal judge is giving residents who live near Bayer CropScience's Institute plant time to amend their lawsuit against the company.

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• Goodwin extends restraining order against Bayer

  By Jessica M. Karmasek | Thursday, Feb 24, 2011 @ 2:51am

  Goodwin CHARLESTON -- A federal judge has extended a temporary restraining order against Bayer CropScience until March 28.

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• Bayer lawyers say Institute plant is safe

  By Jessica M. Karmasek | Wednesday, Feb 23, 2011 @ 6:23am

  Goodwin CHARLESTON -- Lawyers for Bayer CropScience have told a federal judge that the company's Institute plant is safe and that its methyl isocyanate unit should be allowed to resume production.

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• Copenhaver moves state's mountaintop mining case to D.C.

  By Steve Korris | Thursday, Feb 3, 2011 @ 1:45am

  Copenhaver CHARLESTON -- For the sake of "certainty and finality in the coalfields," U.S. District Judge John Copenhaver decided that West Virginia's challenge to new federal rules for mountaintop mining belongs in federal court at Washington.

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• Fossil fuels and jackpot justice

  By The West Virginia Record | Friday, Jan 28, 2011 @ 8:32am

  Investor's Business Daily devoted a recent editorial to "Obama's War on Coal."

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• Tomblin says state will 'aggressively pursue' EPA suit

  By Jessica M. Karmasek | Thursday, Jan 13, 2011 @ 2:13am

  CHARLESTON -- State Sen. Earl Ray Tomblin, acting as West Virginia's governor, in his State of the State address on Wednesday night said he intends to "aggressively pursue" the state's lawsuit against the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

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• EPA wants judge to deny surface mining injunction

  By Jessica M. Karmasek | Monday, Oct 25, 2010 @ 9:39am

  CHARLESTON -- Lawyers for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urged a federal judge last week to turn down a request from the National Mining Association for a preliminary injunction.

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• 2010 U.S. Attorney's awards presented

  By The West Virginia Record | Thursday, Oct 7, 2010 @ 3:00am

  CHARLESTON -– The 2010 Annual Law Enforcement and Victim Assistance Awards presentation and reception were presented Oct. 6 at the University of Charleston Rotunda.

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• State suing EPA over mine regulations

  By Jessica M. Karmasek | Wednesday, Oct 6, 2010 @ 7:47am

  Manchin CHARLESTON -- Gov. Joe Manchin announced Wednesday the state is filing a lawsuit against the Obama administration over its attempts to curb mountaintop removal in West Virginia.

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• Coal group wants to stop Obama surface mining policy

  By Jessica M. Karmasek | Monday, Sep 20, 2010 @ 9:51am

  CHARLESTON -- A coal industry group wants a court order barring the Obama administration from using a policy designed to limit surface mining in Appalachia.

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• The Obama administration's war on coal

  By The West Virginia Record | Sunday, Aug 22, 2010 @ 11:00am

  Long before the outbreak of the Cold War, Lenin bragged that the West would sell him the rope he would use to hang us.

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• Another expert excluded from Sierra Club case

  By Steve Korris | Friday, Aug 20, 2010 @ 3:00am

  HUNTINGTON – Sierra Club science fell short at a trial over water pollution from coal mines, leaving government in control rather than nature groups.

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• Mining companies blame EPA for industry woes

  By Kelly Holleran | Tuesday, Aug 17, 2010 @ 10:00am

  WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a recently filed lawsuit, the coal-mining industry lays blame on the Environmental Protection Agency and other branches of the Obama administration for imposing significant delays on surface coal mining and for making it increasingly difficult to obtain permits that allow for mining operations.

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• Federal agreement doesn't protect Massey from citizen suits, groups say

  By Steve Korris | Thursday, Jul 29, 2010 @ 3:00am

  CHARLESTON -– Massey Energy's clean water agreement with the government doesn't protect it from citizen suits, nature groups argue in federal court.

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• Massey wants Copenhaver on two water pollution suits

  By Steve Korris | Monday, Jul 26, 2010 @ 5:45am

  CHARLESTON – Facing two water pollution claims before federal judges John Copenhaver and Robert Chambers, Massey Energy wants Copenhaver to take charge of both.

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• Massey seeks to dismiss water pollution suit

  By Steve Korris | Friday, Jul 16, 2010 @ 3:00am

  CHARLESTON – Private citizens can sue to enforce the national Clean Water Act only when government regulators fail to enforce it, Massey Energy argues in federal court.

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• THEIR VIEW: Sad to see how far Byrd has fallen

  By The West Virginia Record | Tuesday, Jun 15, 2010 @ 6:55am

  Stuart CHARLESTON -- Sen. Robert Byrd, once a champion of working families and the coal industry, proved again just how far the Senator has moved away from ordinary West Virginians and working families.

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• PERSONNEL FILE: Jackson Kelly attorneys honored as Bar Foundation Fellows

  By The West Virginia Record | Wednesday, Apr 28, 2010 @ 5:14am

  Charleston-–Jackson Kelly PLLC attorneys Ellen S. Cappellanti and William J. Powell will be honored as West Virginia State Bar Foundation Fellows during the 12th Annual Bar Foundation Fellows Dinner on April 29.

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