CHARLESTON, WV (WVNS) — U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) recently announced funding for five flood relief projects across West Virginia. On Tuesday, January 24, 2024, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee announced $6,894,616 from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the state of West Virginia. The funds will be used […]
West Virginia environmental groups have sued the Forest Service for failing to protect streams in the Cherry River watershed from the impacts of coal hauling in the Monongahela National Forest. The watershed is home to the critically endangered candy darter, a freshwater fish striped in bright green and orange. But environmentalists say trucks brimming with coal are spilling harmful sediment and pollutants into its waters. .
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Development of Corridor H in West Virginia has drawn mounting concerns over feared environmental impacts from the project despite assurances those impacts won t happen from the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and the West Virginia Department of Transportation s Division of Highways. The unfinished Parsons-to-Davis and Wardensville-to-Virginia state line segments of the project have drawn scrutiny.