The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that West Virginia communities will receive nearly $3 million of Brownfields funding through its Multipurpose, Assessment and Cleanup (MAC) Grants.
A hydraulic fracturing operation at a Marcellus Shale well.
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After fracking companies invested billions chasing the natural gas boom across West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, what do people living in the middle of the most prolific gas fields have to show for it, more than a decade later?
That’s the question the Ohio River Valley Institute, an independent think tank based in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, working to advance a more prosperous, sustainable and equitable Appalachia, asked in a report published on Wednesday.
Its answer: In short, not much.
watching those temperatures over the next several hours for new york city and boston at or below freezing. but then eventually overnight tonight it changes over to all rain for sections of the northeast and new england. however, there is more snow that will be moving. in right now we have airport delays over two hours for newark and zero right now nor jfk and laguardia. watch out later on for those airport delays to grow. but tomorrow night overnight we are going to watch that rain change over to snow for the major cities from d.c. to philadelphia to new york. and yes again, boston looking at heavy snow. so how much to expect? tonight through thursday, louisville, kentucky. cincinnati, the upper ohio river valley 8 to 12 inches. 4 to 8 between washington d.c. and new york city. boston will likely be on the fringe of that next system. 2 to 4-inch. greta, even colder air is gonna be moving in over the next several days. but a little bit of good news 17 days until spring. back to you. t
karen mcginnis, in for indra petersons. boy do we have weather on the watch this morning. what do we know now? the temperatures are about 20 degrees cooler this morning than they were yesterday morning. very mild air out ahead of that cold front. now that the cold front has moved through, we ll start to fill in with that much colder air coming in from the west and the northwest. we start the morning out with 30s and a few 40s here and there. along the eastern great lakes you re seeing a little bit of snow, not a lot, just flurries. some areas may see a rain/snow mix. temperatures across the midwest in the 20s and 30s. we haven t seen the coldest air yet as you would expect. certainly lake-effect snow, especially across the eastern great lakes enaskeding from rochester to buffalo into syracuse. maybe a few light snow flurries expected across the upper ohio river valley as well. well, temperatures will bounce around a little bit, going into the next several days. but after that, anothe
stretch of road all of the way from east of denver right over to the border with kansas very treacherous driving conditions being reported there. already at the denver international airport we have seen just about 7.5 inches of snowfall. more expected through the afternoon and they are under a winter storm warning that stretches all of the way in through kansas and nebraska pretty much sandwiched between interstate 70 and interstate 80 and that is 40 to 50-mile-an-hour wind gusts. where you see pink is where we look at winter storm warnings. it continues over into portions of illinois but other areas under winter storm watches as well. continuing into the upper ohio river valley and that s where we are looking at the next 24 hours as we move ahead and look ahead from the central rockies over into the central great plains and area of low pressure will trek toward the ohio river valley. as it does if you live along the