By Juliet Eilperin May 10 LENORE, W.Va. — Donna Branham was grilling steaks in her backyard when she felt the tremors. She was two miles away from the coal mine, but she could feel...
Our thanks to the Greenbrier River Fly Fishing Classic for it’s $1000 donation to the Greenbrier Watershed last week. Donations also included $1000 to Greenbrier County Youth Camp and $3000 to Project Healing Waters...
By Laurence Hammack laurence.hammack@roanoke.com 981-3239 May 14, 2019 Developers of the Mountain Valley Pipeline have agreed to pay a fine of nearly $266,000 for violating environmental regulations in West Virginia. The agreement, outlined in...
By Haley Brown WVVA LEWISBURG, WV (WVVA) Water rates for residents in Lewisburg may soon be increasing to fund a $36.5 million revamp of the current water system. Plans for the “Waterworks System Improvement...
By Brad Rice, Brandon Stover MAN, WV (WCHS/WVAH) — Almost fifty years later, the scars and heartache still remain across the Southern Coalfields of West Virginia. On the morning of February 26, 1972, a...
By Brittany Patterson WV Public Broadcasting West Virginia environmental regulators have changed a series of state-imposed conditions to federal permits issued for stream crossings for natural gas pipelines and other federal projects approved by...
Join the WV/VA Water Quality Monitoring Project for two free webinars on programs that use online interactive mapping systems to allow volunteers to identify water quality impacts from natural gas pipelines by viewing aerial photography. Pipeline CSI and Mountain Valley Watch are innovative programs developed to...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposal to redefine an important part of the Clean Water Act, which protects headwater streams and wetlands. The rule the Trump Administration is proposing to redefine is called “waters of...
By Laurence Hammack laurence.hammack@roanoke.com Apr 4, 2019 ELLISTON — The 212th day was a lot like the first, which for foes of the Mountain Valley Pipeline was a good thing. Since Sept. 5, 2018,...
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...
