Seven-year-old Telly Markun, right, and her sister, 10-year-old Lil Markun, left, collect litter along 12th Avenue on March 18, 2020, in Huntington. A series of spring cleanups will begin in Huntington this week and are scheduled throughout the city until mid-May.Â
Sholten Singer | The Herald-Dispatch file photo
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Feb 18, 2021 @ 13:09
On the evening of February 1, a fire erupted at a West Virginia facility that processes radioactive oilfield waste generated from nearby fracking operations, injuring two workers. A video of the fire captured by local news station WTRF shows a raging nighttime inferno billowing out of the collapsed building.
Initial news reports described the facility located in Dallas Pike, 50 miles southwest of Pittsburgh as a truck stop cleaning station. However, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) confirmed to DeSmog that the facility, which the agency says is owned and operated by Ohio-based company Petta Enterprises, does a lot more than clean trucks: It processes oil and gas waste. And the agency confirmed that it was the volatile nature of this waste transported inside trucks arriving at the site that helped cause the blaze.
A federal judge in Charleston has ruled in favor of Union Carbide in a lawsuit.
In a 90-page decision published Monday, Senior U.S. District Court Judge John Copenhaver denied an application for a temporary restraining order by the Courtland Co.
Courtland is suing Union Carbide over pollution from an industrial landfill in South Charleston into two streams near property both companies own. The court’s decision means the company won’t be required to take immediate action to stop water pollution from the landfill.
Courtland’s attorneys filed the request in February. They also filed a lawsuit alleging the site was in violation of the federal Clean Water Act.
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