West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection has announced it is extending the public comment period on a small change that could — if industry has its way — someday soon result in a major weakening of the state’s water quality standards. The comment period on the change — to allow harmonic mean flow to be used [...]

Here’s another video of the fight outside Impulse night club early in the morning of April 24. There’s audio, but it’s hard to make out what anyone is saying. At one point a guy looks at the camera and says, “MMA, how you gettin’ whooped?” Woody Woods from 98.7 The Beat told me about it a little [...]

Every few years, it seems, industry lobbyists in West Virginia come back with their proposal to greatly weaken the state’s water quality standards by changing the way pollution limits are calculated. This past legislative session, they succeeded in slipping through what one industry lawyer, Dave Yaussy described — perhaps hopefully — on his West Virginia Environmental [...]