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The United States Environmental Protection Agency has issued a rule aimed at protecting against discharges of hazardous substances stemming from extreme weather events. The "worst-case discharge" rule could loom large in the Kanawha Valley, where advocates have pushed for stronger protection against such pollution for yeas.

West Virginia had the highest percentage of customers without electric power by a wide margin Wednesday afternoon, and the state has endured disproportionately lengthy and frequent power outages in recent years. The problem has been especially pervasive in Appalachian Power service territory.

Atlantic Richfield/BP recently released an analysis that determined the pit would be the preferred site to be the repository for most of the toxic material.

ConocoPhillips Alaska, operator of the Kuparuk River unit, has applied to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources

It was a packed house of worship Sunday at Corpus Christi Parish in West Pittston and many other churches throughout the area as Christians celebrated Easter. The holy day marks

Last Friday, the EPA finalized the strongest-ever GHG standards for medium and heavy-duty trucks for 2027-2032, preventing one billion tons of carbon pollution.

New EPA greenhouse gas standards requiring steep emissions reductions for heavy-duty trucks and buses don’t have the same buy-in from the industry enjoyed by the agency’s rule on cars and medium-duty vehicles released about a week earlier.

After decades of back and forth, the Environmental Protection Agency has finally slammed the door on chrysotile asbestos.

In its 2023 10-K, ConocoPhillips reported on its Bear 1 wildcat, saying that "no commercial hydrocarbons were found and the well was deemed a dry hole and permanently plugged and abandoned." The well was "at a location 30 miles south of the Greater Kuparuk Area and east of the Colville River on stat...

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas has approved three North Slope infrastructure projects, including moving an existing camp, adding an airport gate and upgrading a transmission line. A March 1 approval is of a request by Prudhoe Bay operator Hilcorp North Slope to r...