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West Virginia Senate President Craig Blair and state House of Delegates Speaker Roger Hanshaw have objected to an agreement between West Virginia environmental groups and the United States Environmental Protection Agency aimed at cleaning up the Lower Guyandotte River watershed. Blair and Hanshaw argue the proposed agreement allows the EPA to ignore water quality standard compliance criteria established by state legislators and doesn’t respect the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s authority.
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The state Department of Environmental Protection has filed a motion in federal court to intervene in a proposed settlement to limit mining pollutants in streams. At the heart of the issue is the Guyandotte River and the alleged failure of the DEP to administer water testing and limits for ionic toxicity in 11 state streams that affect 100,000 people. As a result, conservation groups filed a lawsuit.
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has asked, in an April 22, 2024 filing, to intervene in a federal lawsuit that yielded a proposed settlement establishing a plan to clean up the Lower Guyandotte River watershed. The agreement proposed in federal court would settle a lawsuit environmental groups filed against the United States Environmental Protection Agency last month contending the EPA has not calculated maximum pollution amounts in the Lower Guyandotte River watershed that would allow the watershed to meet water quality standards. The groups say that because the DEP hadn’t submitted pollution reduction target plans for waters in the watershed biologically impaired due to ionic toxicity, the EPA has had a duty to act.