By Rebecca Beitsch – 06/12/19 04:18 PM EDT A new proposed rule from the U.S. Forest Service designed to make environmental reviews more efficient would shortcut important oversight of industry plans, environmentalists say. The rule comes...
The attached Panther Ridge Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Project includes a timber project north of Blue Bend near Auto with many tributary streams on the project area that flow into the Greenbrier River. The project is...
By Brooke Williams, VirginiaFirst.co Local residents are putting their money where their mouth is. They say they’re withdrawing funds from banks with ties to the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s developers. “I’m seriously thinking about moving my...
By Micheal Sainato; The GuadianMay 28, 2019 Compulsory purchase – or the threat of it – of property on the route of a pipeline for fracked natural gas has left a slew of grievances and...
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 the...
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 Fly...
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 a...
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 Project”...
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 thirty-foot...
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 the...
