WVDEP Secretary Caperton resigns
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...
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