West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
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Recent News About West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
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State DEP, coal group file comments on EPA carbon emissions plan
CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection on Monday filed comments related to the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan. -
Judge sides with Raleigh County lab, says DEP must comply with board’s order
CHARLESTON – A Kanawha County court judge has ordered the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection to comply with a state board’s order allowing a Raleigh County laboratory to remain open. -
Judge orders DEP to appear at hearing over environmental board suit
CHARLESTON – A Kanawha County Court judge has ordered the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection to appear and explain why a writ of mandamus should not be ordered against it in a lawsuit filed by a Raleigh County laboratory last week. -
Raleigh Co. lab sues, says DEP 'openly defying' order
CHARLESTON – In a lawsuit filed Monday, a Raleigh County laboratory alleges that the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is “openly defying” an order by the state Environmental Quality Board allowing the lab to remain open. -
Raleigh Co. lab can stay open; hearing set for December
CHARLESTON – A Raleigh County laboratory can continue to operate, despite allegations of employees falsifying coal industry water quality samples, the West Virginia Environmental Quality Board ruled Wednesday. -
State environmental board to decide if Raleigh lab can stay open
CHARLESTON – Whether a Raleigh County laboratory can continue operating, despite allegations of employees falsifying coal industry water quality samples, is up to the West Virginia Environmental Quality Board. -
Man says DEP, company damaged property by drainage pipe
MADISON -- A man is suing over claims a relative's property was damaged after mine workers left a drainage pipe near her home. -
Water woes aren't going away, town hall shows
CHARLESTON – A town hall meeting about the recent water contamination that has gripped the Kanawha Valley this month showed that the issue isn’t going away anytime soon. -
Legal leaders react to water woes
CHARLESTON -- With water contamination woes affecting Charleston and surrounding counties, some legal community leaders are taking action. -
Chesapeake subsidiary to pay $3.2M civil penalty to resolve Clean Water Act violations
WASHINGTON - A subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy, the nation’s second largest natural gas producer, will spend an estimated $6.5 million to restore sites damaged by unauthorized discharges of fill material into streams and wetlands. -
DEP files suit over underground storage tanks in Pineville
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DEP files suit against Fayette Co. company
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WVDEP files suit against Hampshire Co. sewage treatment plant
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Family says mountaintop removal mine damaging cemetery
The Jarrell Family Cemetery. Photo courtesy of Vivian Stockman/www.ohvec.org. Flyover courtesy of SouthWings.org. -
THEIR VIEW: Listing of fish as endangered is premature, harmful to energy industry
US Fish and Wildlife Service Pursues Implementation of the Endangered Species Act On Basis of Threat of Energy Resource Development -
Environmental groups sue Bandmill Coal over alleged selenium discharge
HUNTINGTON - Three environmental groups are suing Bandmill Coal Corp. after they claim it has been discharging selenium into waterways. -
Business groups: Adverse ruling in Mingo Logan-EPA case could hurt economy
Tomblin WASHINGTON - Ten business groups, in a filing this week, expressed their support for a federal court ruling reversing the federal Environmental Protection Agency's veto of a West Virginia coal mine's water pollution permit.
