The Mountain Valley Pipeline could start moving natural gas anytime now, but the people who live near it still have questions about their safety and health.
West Virginia Senate President Craig Blair and state House of Delegates Speaker Roger Hanshaw have objected to an agreement between West Virginia environmental groups and the United States Environmental Protection Agency aimed at cleaning up the Lower Guyandotte River watershed. Blair and Hanshaw argue the proposed agreement allows the EPA to ignore water quality standard compliance criteria established by state legislators and doesn’t respect the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s authority.
The West Virginia Rivers Coalition has threatened to sue Chemours over what the group says are lingering violations of the Clean Water Act tied to PFAS at the company s Washington Works plant near Parkersburg. Chemours says the United States Environmental Protection Agency has yet to approve a PFAS remediation plan the agency required the company to submit in a consent order in April 2023.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is closing a long-gaping loophole on coal ash disposal oversight at surface impoundments throughout West Virginia. The proposal setting up the final EPA rule has drawn criticism from West Virginia-serving utilities American Electric Power and FirstEnergy as well as the state Public Service Commission.
The West Virginia Rivers Coalition is preparing to take legal action against The Chemours Company FC LLC. The company is accused of breaking the Clean Water Act. It is said