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CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey says he will be challenging a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule he says will force power plants fueled by coal or natural gas to capture smokestack emissions or shut down.

Both pollutants are "major public health menaces" that disproportionately affect people of color and low-income communities, the panel said.

CHATHAM, Va. — The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project is expected to continue unabated, following the ratification of H.R.3746: the “Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023” by U.S. President Joe Biden

Climate groups have been critical of President Biden over his support for the fossil fuel industry as they argue it has not been the "climate presidency" he promised.

The Biden administration has publicly endorsed, at least tepidly, the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a development that could augur well for the

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Congressional Republicans, voting party line, will end an important provision protecting streams and rivers from coal waste, and a requirement that oil companies report payments to Foreign Governments. The former is blatant hippie punching anti environmental evil. The latter is a fully expected out come if you elect a Russian puppet president, and appoint a Secretary of state whose main job will be to exploit Russian oil fields. So, if that happened, and this happened, then everything is fallin...

A U.S. Supreme Court decision issued Thursday could severely limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to move the nation towards renewable energy.

Robbie Harris has more. Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality is getting more time to assess the impact of the 303-mile, 42-inch-wide pipeline on hundreds of tiny streams and waterways. This week the Army Corps of Engineers granted an extension until spring of next year. Tom Cormons is with the advocacy group Appalachian Voices. “We take the extension to be a real signal that protecting water quality is a priority for the federal and state regulators here," Cormons says. "And, it r...

The massive new White House report on how to re-invigorate and reimagine coal communities on the decline , rolled out almost on cue, just a few months after Joe Biden became president. Ridgeview High School in Dickenson Co. powers its greenhouses with a solar installation. Credit Credit Chelsea Barnes/Appalachian Voices But this has been years in the planning for people like Tom Cormons, and armies of environmentalists around the country, who’ve spent decades preparing for this move, they cal...