February 2022
Senate approves ceding site-specific water pollution limit oversight, weakening some water quality standards – 2/1/2022, The Herald Dispatch
Bill weakening some water quality standards, ceding legislative review of site-specific human health criteria changes nears passage – 2/3/2022, Charleston Gazette-Mail
Federal appeals court hands Mountain Valley Pipeline opponents another win – 2/4/2022, Charleston Gazette-Mail
Biden plan to spend $725M to clean up abandoned coal mines – 2/7/2022, ABC News
Landowner, environmental groups push for bills to put more gas well inspectors into the field – 2/7/2022, The Dominion Post
West Virginia is allocated unprecedented amount to clean up abandoned mine lands – 2/8/2022, WV Metro News
WV House committee advances bill easing aboveground storage tank regulations – 2/9/2022, Charleston Gazette-Mail
WV House rejects preserving legislative review of site-specific human health criteria, green-lights raising allowable DDT concentration – 2/10/2022, Charleston Gazette-Mail
WV House sends rule weakening some water quality standards, ceding site-specific human health criteria change to Governor – 2/11/2022, Charleston Gazette-Mail
WV House changes bill to weaken oversight of oil and gas tanks closest to public water intakes – 2/14/2022, Charleston Gazette-Mail
WV House of Delegates approves bill exempting oil and gas tanks closest to public water intakes from independent inspection – 2/15/2022, Charleston Gazette-Mail
Justice signs into law environmental rules package that includes some weakening of some water quality standards – 2/21/2022, Charleston Gazette-Mail
Committee approves bills allowing DNR to enter into third-party recreation contracts at all state parks, forests – 2/22/2022, Charleston Gazette-Mail
WV Senate energy panel approves another bill to boost state oil and gas oversight as the first bill’s prospects dim – 2/25/2022, Charleston Gazette-Mail
WV House passes bill that would allow DNR to enter into third-party recreation contracts at all state parks and forests – 2/28/2022, Charleston Gazette-Mail
