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The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has made a preliminary determination to approve an air quality permit for a planned ammonia production facility in Mingo County, West Virginia without conducting an air quality impact modeling analysis. The DEP says emissions at the site planned by TransGas Development Systems LLC wouldn't be high enough to merit such an analysis under a state legislative rule.

The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill that would create an economic and energy development board for southern West Virginia counties. The bill, Senate Bill 354, would create a 15-member board that includes representatives of economic development agencies in McDowell, Mercer, Mingo, Wayne and Wyoming counties and governor appointees from the private sector.

Teachers may have the ability to remove troubled children from elementary school classrooms if Senate Bill 614 becomes law. The bill sparked a lot of debate on the chamber floor. It gives kindergarten through sixth grade teachers the ability to remove children from classes or from school if they are exhibiting certain behavior like threatening teachers or classmates or otherwise creating an unsafe learning environment. 

What’s going on with the utilities and infrastructure in our little corner of Appalachia is incredibly nuanced and difficult to understand.

“King Coal” is one of the best movies I’ve seen depicting the people, places and culture of Appalachia.