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By KenWard Jr. Staff writer The state Senate on Wednesday evening approved a bill that makes relatively minor changes in West Virginia's mine safety laws, but rewrites the state Department of Environmental Protection's definition... Published: Thursday, March 30, 2017 Words: 1092
By KenWard Jr. Staff writer Supporters and opponents of the latest bill to force unwilling land and mineral owners to allow large-scale natural gas drilling debated the issue Monday morning as a West Virginia House of Delegates committee... Published: Tuesday, April 04, 2017 Words: 767
By KenWard Jr. Staff writer Environmental organizations and citizen groups turned out Monday to urge lawmakers to strip from a coal industry bill language that would force state regulators to remove consideration of the diversity... Published: Tuesday, April 04, 2017 Words: 816
By KenWard Jr. Staff writer Seven years after the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster, federal regulators are still not fully implementing congressionally mandated reforms of the nation's program for responding to coal mine emergencies,... Published: Wednesday, April 05, 2017 Words: 869
By KenWard Jr. Staff writer A bill to lessen water quality restrictions for the West Virginia coal industry advanced on Tuesday to the House floor and another step toward likely passage. Members of the House Energy Committee approved... Published: Wednesday, April 05, 2017 Words: 603
By KenWard Jr. Staff writer The natural gas industry's controversial bill to help it force drilling on unwilling land or mineral owners was declared dead for the session late Tuesday night. West Virginia House leaders decided not... Published: Wednesday, April 05, 2017 Words: 933
By KenWard Jr. Staff writer On the seventh anniversary of the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, congressional Democrats reintroduced legislation aimed at better protecting the health and safety of coal miners and reforming the program... Published: Thursday, April 06, 2017 Words: 502
By KenWard Jr. Staff writer As trial began Monday in a Putnam County businessman and political leaders lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a federal judge ruled that the EPA did not take Clean Water Act enforcement... Published: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Words: 953
By KenWard Jr. Putnam Review In September 2010, bulldozers were moving dirt at Neal Run Crossing, along U.S. 50 west of downtown Parkersburg. Ron Foster, a businessman from nearby Putnam County, was hoping to flatten out the site... Published: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 Words: 1025
By KenWard Jr. Staff writer Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Austin Caperton and his staff ignored serious threats to water quality when they approved a West Virginia permit for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, lawyers... Published: Thursday, August 17, 2017 Words: 740