Action Alert!
Action Alert: Comment On Pipeline Stream Crossing Permit by 3/4 WVDEP is proposing to change requirements for an important permit that regulates pipeline construction activities in streams and wetlands. The WVDEP agreed to permit...
Category: News
Court rejects new hearing for Atlantic Coast Pipeline
By DENISE LAVOIE – Associated Press | Posted: Mon 9:03 PM, Feb 25, 2019 RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday denied a request to reconsider a ruling throwing out a permit for...
Atlantic Coast Pipeline Set Back Indefinitely
By Admir Celovic – Mark Iden Pipeline Technology Journal Legal environmental challenges have delayed the construction of Dominion Energy’s $7.5 billion, 1000-km natural gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The pipeline would run from West Virginia...
Renewable energy bill
Action Alert! West Virginia Environmental Council Feb 4, 2019 HB 2589, (A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §24-2-20, relating to siting...
Roanoke attorneys seek criminal investigation of Mountain Valley Pipeline
By Lawrence Hammack Roanoke Times Crews building the Mountain Valley Pipeline may have violated civil and criminal laws by continuing construction in streams and wetlands after a permit was suspended, two Roanoke attorneys say...
Great Greenbrier River Race: Bike, paddle, run, and fun!
By Karl and Michelle Teel Jan 4, 2019 Recreation News Now in its 33rd year, the Great Greenbrier River Race is, well, even greater. Held the last Saturday in April, this year’s event...
NAVIGATE THE 2019 WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATIVE SESSION
SOME LINKS TO HELP YOU NAVIGATE THROUGH THE 2019 WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATIVE SESSION http://wvrivers.org/2019/01/policynews1-2/ http://wvrivers.org/2019/01/wqs2/ https://wvecouncil.org/ http://www.wvlegislature.gov/House/roster.cfm http://www.wvlegislature.gov/committees/house/main.cfm http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Senate1/roster.cfm http://www.wvlegislature.gov/committees/senate/main.cfm
Parker takes helm of Droop Mountain, Beartown and GRT
Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer Pocahontas Times Growing up in Pocahontas County where there is a state park around nearly every corner, it’s easy to fall under the spell of nature and all it has...
Registration Open for 33rd Great Greenbrier River Race
The 33rd Great Greenbrier River Race will be on April 27, 2019 The 33rd annual Great Greenbrier River Race is held the last Saturday in April each year in Marlinton, WV. With great prizes,...
The Devil We Know – The Chemistry Of A Cover-Up
Unraveling one of the biggest environmental scandals of our time, a group of citizens in West Virginia take on a powerful corporation after they discover it has knowingly been dumping a toxic chemical –...
