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West Virginia Gov Justice business failures detailed | Politics

Gov. Jim Justice s business failures and unmet obligations have drawn grievances from banks and foreign companies. But they ve also affected members of some of West Virginia s most vulnerable communities, including company Justice company retirees like Pinkey Mullens enduring company drug coverage interruptions and southern coalfields suffering environmental and property tax revenue losses.

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Julia Judy Bonds, 58, dies; outspoken foe of mountaintop strip mining

Julia Judy Bonds, 58, dies; outspoken foe of mountaintop strip mining
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West Virginia legislators threatening to weaken air quality | Legislative Session

The West Virginia Legislature is showing little sign through a quarter of the 2023 state regular legislative session of strengthening air quality and other environmental protections in a state of high concentrations of air pollution from chemical, gas and oil infrastructure. Instead, a bill introduced by House Energy and Manufacturing Committee Chair Bill Anderson, R-Wood, would keep the state Department of Environmental Protection from using community air monitoring data for regulatory purposes.

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Rare Appalachian Salamander Moves Closer to Endangered Species Protection

Center for Biological Diversity: CHARLESTON, W.Va. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it would consider protecting the yellow-spotted woodland salamander under the Endangered Species Act. The agency now has 12 months to decide whether to protect the salamander, which only lives in an Appalachian rock outcrops targeted by coal mining.

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Protection for yellow-spotted salamander, candy darter fish | News

Environmental groups are turning to legal action to pursue protections for the candy darter and the yellow-spotted woodland salamander, both of which exist only in small populations, mostly in West Virginia.

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