Following a year-long investigation, Denmark’s Mediation and Complaints-Handling Institution for Responsible Business Conduct (NCP Denmark) has determined that Rockwool International and its North American subsidiary failed to comply with well-established international guidelines in the planning and construction of its factory in Jefferson County, West Virginia.
The ruling appears to mark the first time that a challenge brought under these international guidelines has resulted in a final ruling against a multinational corporation for non-compliance while operating in the United States.
While the ruling has no direct legal or regulatory consequences, Rockwool has a year to address its deficiencies and demonstrate to NCP Denmark, a quasi-governmental institution, that it will comply with these international standards for proper corporate behavior.
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The company West Virginia Methanol, Inc. submitted a permit application in November 2020 to build a facility in Pleasants County on a former carbon black site along the Ohio River. The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection accepted public comments and held an online public hearing this week on the facility. This facility is yet another bad industrial idea for the Ohio River Valley.
If built, the permit application for this facility states that it will use 36 million cubic feet of natural gas per day to create 1,000 tons of methanol per day. All of that gas has to come from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of shale deposits. On Dec. 14, 2020, Concerned Health Professionals of New York along with Physicians for Social Responsibility released the 7th Edition of the Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking (Unconventional Gas and Oil Extraction). This fully referenced compilation brea
The Judiciary Committee of the West Virginia House of Representatives held a virtual hearing on an election reform bill on April 5. What took place was like a story from the parody site The Babylon Bee.
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