Perennial environmental priorities like boosting funding for gas and oil well remediation and establishing community solar in West Virginia failed in the state s 2024 regular legislative session. West Virginia environmentalists did celebrate blocking legislation they opposed that would have barred use of community air monitoring data in third-party lawsuits.
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has scheduled gatherings to answer questions and take input on an air permit renewal application for an Institute industrial facility it has preliminarily determined it will approve. The renewal would be for a Specialty Products US LLC site that has helped high air toxic risk in the area from ethylene oxide.
Some Chapel Hill residents were left confused and concerned when a cloud of smoke descended on the town last Wednesday. The source of the haze was a controlled burn in Chatham County, a representative from Chapel Hill Fire Department confirmed in an email. It’s part of a larger effort to contain wildfires and manage vegetation.