WASHINGTON D.C.-- Today, the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places announced its decision to restore the site of the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain labor conflict to the National Register…
Charleston, WV -- Today, the Sierra Club challenged the approval by the West Virginia Public Service Commission of an amended power purchase agreement that will allow the dirty and uneconomic…
RICHMOND, Virginia -- In written comments today to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, Governor Northam stated that he would not support the EPA’s revisions to lessen…
Richmond, VA -- Today, the American Lung Association released their 2018 State of Air report, with Virginian cities ranking among both the cleanest and most polluted U.S. cities for air pollution.…
Charleston, WEST VIRGINIA -Lack of federal funding has terminated a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine study on the health effects of mountaintop coal removal in Central…
Richmond, VIRGINIA– The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality held the final public hearing on Virginia’s Carbon Reduction Plan today. At the hearing, participants called for the…
VIRGINIA - Between March 6 and March 19, Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will be holding six public hearings on Virginia’s Carbon Reduction Plan, or Executive Directive 11 (ED 11…
WILLOW ISLAND, WV -- Today, FirstEnergy Corp. announced plans to deactivate the Pleasants Power Station by January 2019. The announcement comes in the wake of failed attempts by FirstEnergy to force…
Charleston, WV--FirstEnergy subsidiaries Monongahela Power and Potomac Edison have rejected conditions that the West Virginia Public Service Commission (PSC) imposed for the transfer of the Pleasants…
HUNTINGTON, WV-- Today, the Sierra Club, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy and West Virginia Rivers Coalition filed a lawsuit against Southeastern Land, LLC,…