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Free Webinar: Monitoring Pipelines with Online Mapping

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 help...

Clean Water Act Revision ~ Comment by 4.15.19

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 the...

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 the...

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 into...

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 certain...

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