All the headlines from our West Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 22 2014 // In the last two years, more than 550 West Virginia coal miners have temporarily lost their mining certifications because they failed a drug test.State Office of Miner’s Health, Safety and Training Eugene White...
Oct 8 2014 // A January hearing is set on a proposed settlement of hundreds of lawsuits against Mountain State University.Media outlets reported that a three-judge mass litigation panel gave preliminary approval to the settlement Monday...
Oct 3 2014 // State environmental officials had tallied more than 46,400 aboveground storage tanks as Wednesday’s deadline to register them approached.Despite the deadline, the Department of Environmental Protection expects to...
Oct 1 2014 // Benwood, West Virginia Police Chief Frank Longwell is calling for changes to a state law regarding radar after his city lost state funding for speed enforcement.The law doesn’t allow police in Class IV...
Oct 1 2014 // Anthony Carrico has been appointed as West Virginia’s state fire marshal. The West Virginia Fire Commission selected Carrico to succeed Sterling Lewis Jr. Carrico has been serving as acting state fire marshal since...
Sep 19 2014 // A federal bankruptcy judge has approved a $2.9 million settlement that would benefit 300,000 people whose water was contaminated in a January chemical spill.Judge Ronald Pearson filed the order this past Tuesday in U.S....
Sep 17 2014 // A lawsuit against a water company, chemical producer, airport and others over a January chemical spill won’t get a hearing for another year.The consolidated lawsuit that targets West Virginia American Water, Eastman...
Sep 10 2014 // West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin plans to use administrative fixes instead of a special session to adjust a law regulating above-ground storage tanks.On Monday, Tomblin’s top environmental official spelled out a...
Sep 4 2014 // A utility is opposing a $2.9 million bankruptcy settlement that would fund projects to benefit 300,000 people whose water was contaminated in January.West Virginia American Water says Freedom Industries shouldn’t use...
Aug 29 2014 // DuPont will pay a fine of $1.275 million to settle a federal complaint over eight chemical releases from a Kanawha County production facility, one of which killed a worker.The Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental...
Aug 27 2014 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has reimbursed $1.4 million to local and state governments, hospitals and some non-profit groups for costs related to January’s chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia.The...
Aug 25 2014 // An airport and a chemical producer want claims dismissed in a lawsuit partly targeting them over a January chemical spill.In U.S. District Court in Charleston, Yeager Airport filed a motion last week to dismiss claims in...
Aug 20 2014 // Freedom Industries Inc., whose leaking chemical tank made much of West Virginia’s water undrinkable early this year, filed a proposed Chapter 11 plan this week that offers nothing to people with claims for polluted...
Aug 18 2014 // Charleston, West Virginia-based Freedom Industries can expect about 5,000 groups to ask for money in bankruptcy claims over the January chemical spill that seeped into West Virginia’s biggest water supply. The...
Aug 15 2014 // Former Mountain State University students who sued the now-defunct Beckley, West Virginia school would be entitled to compensation under a tentative settlement announced this week.The proposed settlement announced by...
Aug 13 2014 // Federal health officials are outlining new studies on the chemicals that spilled into West Virginia’s largest drinking water supply. The National Toxicology Program said in a memo that potential pregnancy and liver...
Aug 12 2014 // When coal-cleaning chemicals seeped into West Virginia’s biggest water supply in January, the city of Cincinnati had a decision to make 200 miles downstream.As the city feared, a sheet of contaminants cruised down...
Aug 11 2014 // The state of West Virginia is seeking $1.8 million from the bankrupt company that spilled chemicals into the state’s largest water supply.Attorney General Patrick Morrisey filed the claim in bankruptcy court in...
Aug 4 2014 // Former West Virginia Governor W. Gaston Caperton III has joined USI Insurance Services as a senior advisor to help the broker expand in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia.The 32nd governor of West Virginia will also help...
Aug 1 2014 // Time is running out for residents and businesses affected by a January chemical spill in Charleston to file claims in federal bankruptcy court.Claims must be filed with U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Charleston by today, Aug.1 ....