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Executives plead not guilty over West Virginia chemical spill: media
2015-01-09 10:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Thursday to charges stemming from a chemical spill that fouled drinking water for about 300,000 West Virginians, media reported. Prosecutors in December accused Freedom Industries Inc, its former president Gary Southern and other officers of negligence and fraud after the discharge of a chemical pollutant into the Elk River near Charleston a year ago. The leak of a chemical foam used to wash coal breached a containment area one mile (1.6 km) upstream of a water treatment and distribution plant...
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West Virginia judge denies chemical company's second challenge to fracking operations
2015-01-06 04:52:08| Logistics - Topix.net
A West Virginia judge has rejected a second legal challenge from a chemical manufacturer saying that hydraulic fracturing operations near its facility in Marshall County would negatively affect its operations. In a Christmas Eve order, Marshall County Circuit Judge David Hummel denied the challenge from Eagle Natrium LLC, a New Martinsville-based subsidiary of Axiall Corp., a manufacturer of chlorovinyl and aromatic chemicals and formerly owned by PPG Industries.
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FirstEnergy Projects Support West Virginia Shale Gas Boom
2014-12-22 19:19:00| Transmission & Distribution World
FirstEnergy Corp. is working on about $100 million in new transmission projects and is evaluating additional system upgrades to support northern West Virginia's rapidly expanding Marcellus Shale gas industry. read more
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After nearly a century, West Virginia coal battle rages on
2014-10-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: At the dirt road entrance to the Mingo Logan Coal Company site along Route 17 in rural West Virginia, a white metal sign hangs, riddled with bullet holes, announcing "NO TRESPASSING" in red lettering. Kenny King doesn't much care. The 59-year-old has been trespassing here about weekly since 1991. That's when he first began an effort to transform this place on top of a mountain in the middle of dense forest about 50 miles south of Charleston, West Virginia from a coal mine into a national monument....
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Court Blocks West Virginia Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine
2014-10-02 23:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: A long court battle came to an end Tuesday when a federal judge upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's denial of a permit for a large, contentious mountaintop removal coal mine in Appalachia, the Spruce No. 1 Mine. Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found no merit in the coal industry's arguments that Mingo Logan coal company should be allowed to remove a West Virginia mountaintop to get at coal deposits and dump the waste soil and rock...
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