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The United States Environmental Protection Agency hasn t made final decisions on key documents in its review that could address longstanding water quality concerns. Those include West Virginia s list of impaired waters and a Chemours plan to address PFAS discharges at its Washington Works facility in Wood County.
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has made a preliminary determination to approve an air quality permit for a planned ammonia production facility in Mingo County, West Virginia without conducting an air quality impact modeling analysis. The DEP says emissions at the site planned by TransGas Development Systems LLC wouldn t be high enough to merit such an analysis under a state legislative rule.
The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill, House Bill 5018, that would bar community air monitoring data from being used in third-party lawsuits or by the state Department of Environmental Protection to issue penalties. HB 5018 has drawn overwhelming opposition from community and environmental advocates who call it a pro-polluter bill.
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.