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The Mountain Valley Pipeline could start moving natural gas anytime now, but the people who live near it still have questions about their safety and health.
Over 50 community and environmental groups representing Appalachia have called on the United States Department of Energy to suspend the planned Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub, known as ARCH2, over what the groups say has been a lack of transparency and adequate community engagement regarding the project. The groups called on the DOE to disclose more information they said would be needed for the public to understand what ARCH2 would mean for the region, including:
a current list of proposed projects within the enterprise spanning parts of West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
West Virginia Senate President Craig Blair and state House of Delegates Speaker Roger Hanshaw have objected to an agreement between West Virginia environmental groups and the United States Environmental Protection Agency aimed at cleaning up the Lower Guyandotte River watershed. Blair and Hanshaw argue the proposed agreement allows the EPA to ignore water quality standard compliance criteria established by state legislators and doesn’t respect the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s authority.