CHARLESTON – A little more than a year ago, on Jan. 8, our 9 year-old granddaughter Emma took a sip of water at our table and immediately complained, “This water tastes funny!”
MOUNDSVILLE – Gastar Exploration's motion to dismiss has been granted in a lawsuit involving Eagle Natrium's claims that the Gastar's fracking activity was dangerous.
MOUNDSVILLE – A temporary restraining order has been granted in a lawsuit against the secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection and Gastar Exploration Inc.
CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection on Monday filed comments related to the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan.
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.
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.
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.
BLUEFIELD – Cooper Industries, a manufacturer of electrical products, will pay $340,000 to the federal Environmental Protection Agency under a consent decree filed May 23.
HUNTINGTON – Three environmental groups have filed federal lawsuits against three coal companies, claiming the runoff from their mountaintop removal mining sites have polluted state waterways.
