CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — A bill which would prevent the state Department of Environmental Protection from using data collected by community monitoring programs as the basis for regulatory actions
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Most speakers during a public hearing in the WV House of Delegates Friday morning for a bill that would bar community air monitoring data in 3rd-party lawsuits voiced opposition to the legislation.
West Virginia Public Energy Authority executive director Nicholas Preservati and spokespeople in Gov. Jim Justice s administration all gave different answers when asked who the board s environmental representative is. The Public Energy Authority also faced fresh lawmaker scrutiny over its plan not to provide legal notice of petition processes to decommission or deconstruct a fossil fuel-fired plant under Senate Bill 609, which requires PEA approval to take those actions.
/PRNewswire/ Mon Power and Potomac Edison, subsidiaries of FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE), have filed a settlement agreement with the West Virginia Public.