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Pipeline Construction Monitoring and Compliance
By April Crowe Keeping up with pipeline construction is enough to make anyone’s head spin! The 3 major pipelines currently under construction–Atlantic Coast (ACP), Mountain Valley (MVP) and Mountaineer Xpress…
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Another Pipeline Controversy in North Carolina
In North Carolina there is an ongoing uproar over approval of a state water pollution permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, with words such as “pay-for-play” and “slush fund”…
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49th
That’s West Virginia’s ranking in the 2018 State Energy Efficiency Scoreboard published by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE).. This represents a drop of two positions from 2017. …
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Mary Wimmer Gets an Award
Mary Wimmer was recently honored by the Morgantown Convention and Visitors Bureau with the Star of Industry Award. This award recognizes those who go above and beyond in the…
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Climate Change Persuasion
By Hugh Rogers Early Saturday morning, December 1st, at the Law School in Morgantown, Tom Rodd is bouncing around the lobby, greeting, quarterbacking, telling stories. Coffee and Danish are available,…
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Thoughts from our president
Proposed Big Run Pump Storage Project in Tucker County, West Virginia Kent Karriker’s article in the December Highlands Voice,page 4, provides a great explanation of the application to the Federal…
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Court Stops Atlantic Coast Pipeline from Crossing National Forests
By John McFerrin The United States Court of Appeals has stopped the Atlantic Coast Pipeline from crossing the Monongahela National Forest and the George Washington National Forest. The Court concluded…
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Canaan Wildlife Refuge Drops Plan for Commercial Logging
By Rick Steelhammer A plan to commercially log more than 1,600 acres of the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge to achieve plant and wildlife habitat improvement goals has been dropped. The…
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Mapping Mountaintop Coal Mining’s Yearly Spread in Appalachia
By Robin A. Smith DURHAM, N.C. — The coal industry may have declined in the last decade because of the rise of cheap natural gas, but a coal mining method…
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West Virginia Environmental Council Developing 2019 Legislative Priorities
By Frank Young At its annual fall meeting, the West Virginia Environmental Council (WVEC) Board of Directors outlined its first draft of legislative priorities for the 2019 regular session of…
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