Former DEP Director, Dave Callaghan has filed to run for the House of Delegates in Kanawha County's 30th District

 DEP has ordered a 14 day shut down of Massey's Marfork Coal operation for repeated water pollution violations. Massey has appealed the decision to the State Surface Mine Board.

 West Virginia Highlands Conservancy is planning a Forest Activist Training the weekend of April 13th. We will be partnering with the Friends of Allegheny Wilderness and the Wilderness Society to put on a top notch seminar.

 EPA has fined Massey's Elk Run Coal Co. mine $27,500 for constructing an illegal dam on the Coal River near Sylvester.

 The USDA Forest Service is planning to triple the timber harvested from the Monongahela National Forest.

 In the past 18 months there have been 11 fatalities involving coal trucks.

 Governor Wise and the Port Authority are backing the Proposed Trans-pork, shocking? - NOT

 WV Division of Forestry Director Randy Dye thinks his agency has the tools necessary to regulate the timber industry, just not the will, er, I mean funds. ds