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Dec 15, 2020 Dec 15, 2020 Austin Caperton speaks during a United Way of Southern West Virginia event in Beckley in 2017. (Register-Herald file photo) Rick Barbero/The Register-Herald West Virginia Department of Environmental Protective Secretary Austin Caperton on Tuesday announced his resignation, effective on the last day of Gov. Jim Justice's current term. Caperton said he also has no plans to stay on as leader of the governor's Downstreams Jobs Task Force, an initiative that Justice had launched in August 2019 to leverage petrochemical man...
By December 15, 2020 - 4:42 pm Now former DEP Secretary Austin Caperton touts a clean air milestone along with Gov. Jim Justice (Governor's Office) Gov. Jim Justice has announced the resignation of Austin Caperton, who has served as secretary for the Department of Environmental Protection for the duration of the governor’s first term. Caperton, 69, says he wants to move on and focus on projects outside of government. Gov. Jim Justice “He has served the people of West Virginia incredibly well for four years and I sincerely thank him for his service to our state,” Justice stated this af...