March 2021March 18, 2021Mountain Valley Pipeline threatens the Greenbrier River – 3/27/2021, The Register Herald WV Senate passes DEP-backed bill weakening some water quality standards – 3/26/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail Bill For Air, Water Quality Rules Clears Senate Judiciary Committee – 3/23/2021, WV Public Broadcasting Bill that weakens some drinking water human health criteria clears Senate Judiciary – 3/22/2021, Dominion Post Eric Engle: Water is life, except in WV (Opinion) – 3/22/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail Senate Judiciary Committee moves water quality standard update closer to passage – 3/22/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail DEP considering Raleigh County surface mine application that has raised health concerns – 3/22/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail Kevin Campbell: Manchin should chart new course for WV (Opinion) – 3/16/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail Water utilities, state environmental regulators wary of bill that would relax oil and gas tank oversight – 3/15/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail WV House passes easing of water quality standards – 3/12/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail Nonprofit working with Solar Holler to make solar panels more affordable for co-op members – 3/12/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail House approves rollback of state regulation of oil and gas tanks near water intakes – 3/10/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail House passes bill exempting tanks near water intakes – 3/10/2021, MetroNews More environmental rollbacks moving through West Virginia’s Legislature – 3/8/2021, Mountain State Spotlight House Judiciary public hearing on water quality rule draws 24 against DEP proposal, 8 in favor – 3/1/2021, Dominion Post W.Va. House Judiciary Committee Holds First Public Hearing Of 2021 On Water Quality Bill – 3/1/2021, WV Public Broadcasting House Judiciary Committee holds public hearing on state water quality standard update – 3/1/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail WV Bills to Relax Water Protections Seen as “Dangerous” – 3/1/2021, Public News Service https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png 0 0 Kathleen Tyner https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png Kathleen Tyner2021-03-18 12:54:042021-07-08 12:07:05March 2021
February 2021March 18, 2021Clean Water: The People Speak as WV Legislators Decline Hearings – 2/26/2021, Appalachian Chronicle Dozens speak out against changes to tank bill at public hearing organized separate from Legislature – 2/26/2021, MetroNews New report predicts power of investments in clean energy infrastructure in WV – 2/25/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail Proposed rollback of WV oil and gas tank oversight to get closer look before advancing in House – 2/25/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail David Lillard: Industry can’t be bothered by responsibility (Opinion) – 2/23/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail House Energy OKs bill to remove 800-plus above-ground storage tanks from 2014 regulatory program – 2/23/2021, Dominion Post House to consider exempting some tanks near community water supplies from inspection requirements – 2/23/2021, MetroNews New W.Va. House Bill Offers Exemption For Oil, Gas Industry In Aboveground Storage Tank Act – 2/23/2021, WV Public Broadcasting Energy and Manufacturing Committee advances rollback of oil and gas waste tank oversight to full House – 2/23/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail West Virginia lawmakers are limiting access because of COVID. Some critics say the rules have reduced citizen input. – 2/23/2021, Mountain State Spotlight House committee to consider rollback of oil and gas waste tank oversight – 2/16/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail DEP budget worries loom over first week of legislative session – 2/16/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail As Legislature convenes, public won’t be where the public discourse is – 2/7/2021, MetroNews Mountain Valley Pipeline faces $303,000 state fine for continued erosion, but pipeline opponents call for bigger penalty – 2/5/2021, Charleston Gazette-Mail WV Office of Oil and Gas Short on Inspectors – 2/5/2021, MetroNews DEP to cut more than third of its staff – 2/5/2021, Dominion Post Lawmakers, Advocates Call To Fully Fund State Oil And Gas Regulator – 2/4/2021, WV Public Broadcasting Mountain Valley Pipeline cited again for erosion and sedimentation violations – 2/4/2021, Roanoke Times How Democrat Joe Manchin Might Sway The Power Of A Split Senate – 2/1/2021, NPR On Point Podcast https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png 0 0 Kathleen Tyner https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png Kathleen Tyner2021-03-18 12:10:512021-03-18 12:10:51February 2021
January 2021March 18, 2021Concerns over erosion impact of Mountain Valley Pipeline continue with project in limbo – 1/28/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail Faced with yet another legal hurdle, Mountain Valley Pipeline changes water permit application approach – 1/26/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail One coal state senator holds the key to Biden’s ambitious climate agenda. And it’s not McConnell. – 1/25/2021, Washington Post Safe Water Collaborative preserves thousands of acres to protect clean drinking water – 1/21/2021, The Journal Justice names environmental protection chief from agency’s ranks, Harold Ward – 1/20/2020, MetroNews Federal commission slows Mountain Valley Pipeline – 1/20/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail Environmental groups set goals for legislative session – 1/17/2021, MetroNews Atlantic Coast Pipeline restoration planned to start later in WV than other states – 1/6/2021, Charleston Gazette-Mail https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png 0 0 Kathleen Tyner https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png Kathleen Tyner2021-03-18 11:27:092021-03-18 11:33:07January 2021
December 2020January 18, 2021Weakened water quality standards remain point of contention as joint legislative committee advances them to full Legislature – 12/20/2020, Charleston Gazette-Mail Climate Change in W.Va: “Who cares about climate change 50 years down the line when I’m trying to put food on the table” – 12/17/2020, WVBOY.com DEP Secretary Austin Caperton announces he’s leaving as Justice’s first term concludes – 12/15/2020, MetroNews Federal regulators are rewriting environmental rules so a massive pipeline can be built across West Virginia – 12/8/2020, Mountain State Spotlight Federal appeals court explains stay of Mountain Valley Pipeline waterbody construction – 12/2/2020, Charleston Gazette-Mail Climate Change in W.Va.: ‘Nobody Wants to Drink Unsafe Water’ – 12/1/2020, WVBOY.com https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png 0 0 Kathleen Tyner https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png Kathleen Tyner2021-01-18 10:50:282021-03-18 12:19:28December 2020
November 2020December 1, 2020Destruction, Disease, and Deception: The Basics on Global Warming – Climate Change in W.Va. – WBOY, 11/18/2020 Talkline with Hoppy Kercheval – MetroNews, 11/18/2020 Court Again Bars Mountain Valley Pipeline From Stream, River Construction – WV Public Broadcasting, 11/10/2020 Federal Court Suspends Mountain Valley Pipeline Construction – WBOY, 11/9/2020 Federal court grants stay of Mountain Valley Pipeline waterbody construction – Charleston Gazette Mail, 11/9/2020 https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png 0 0 Kathleen Tyner https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png Kathleen Tyner2020-12-01 13:14:182020-12-01 13:14:18November 2020
October 2020December 1, 2020Safe Panhandle water, land conservation collaboration announced – Herald Media, 10/11/2020 Opponents seek further delay of work on Mountain Valley Pipeline – Roanoke Times, 10/6/2020 https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png 0 0 Kathleen Tyner https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png Kathleen Tyner2020-12-01 13:07:152020-12-01 13:07:15October 2020
September 2020December 1, 2020WV Rivers Coalition Welcomes New Campaigns Coordinator – Parsons Advocate, 9/28/2020 Mountain Valley Pipeline foes file challenge to reissued stream-crossing permits – Roanoke Times, 9/28/2020 Mountain Valley Pipeline regains permit to cross streams, wetlands – Roanoke Times, 9/25/2020 Climate change guide released by coalition of WV environment, social justice groups – Charleston Gazette Mail, 9/22/2020 Newly formed West Virginia environmental group presents climate report – MetroNews, 9/21/2020 Trump Administration seeks to relax oil drilling rules through U.S. Forest Service rule change – WOWKTV, 9/9/2020 https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png 0 0 Kathleen Tyner https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png Kathleen Tyner2020-12-01 12:45:142020-12-01 13:05:03September 2020
August 2020December 1, 2020Senate Report Calls for Natural Solutions to Battle Climate Change – PNS, 8/31/2020 Hold reps to task on climate – News and Sentinel, 8/28/2020 President signs Great American Outdoors Act into law – Fayette Tribune, 8/10/2020 https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png 0 0 Kathleen Tyner https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png Kathleen Tyner2020-12-01 12:38:482020-12-01 12:38:57August 2020
July 2020July 9, 2020ReImagine Appalachia seeks greener, more economically and racially just region – Pittsburgh Business Times, 7/22/2020 Op-ed: Better alternatives to extraction industry dependence – News and Sentinel, 7/11/2020 Efforts underway to save natural gas pipeline; environmental fight looms – WOWK, 7/7/2020 https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png 0 0 Kathleen Tyner https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png Kathleen Tyner2020-07-09 15:52:012020-12-01 12:33:46July 2020
June 2020July 9, 2020Manchin spearheads ‘Great American Outdoors Act’ – WVVA News, 6/11/2020 Great American Outdoors Act and Wildlife – Dominion Post, 6/11/2020 Manchin lauds Great American Outdoors Act as a huge step forward – MetroNews, 6/11/2020 John McCoy: Congress takes up measure to properly fund public lands – Charleston Gazette-Mail, 6/13/2020 West Virginia environmentalists criticize proposal to relax water protections – Bay Journal, 6/16/2020 Senate passes Manchin’s Great American Outdoors Act – Montgomery Herald, 6/25/2020 Millions of Americans think they’re safe from flood waters. They aren’t – USA Today, 6/29/2020 https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png 0 0 Kathleen Tyner https://fdfad2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-1.png Kathleen Tyner2020-07-09 15:44:052020-07-09 15:57:59June 2020
March 2021
Mountain Valley Pipeline threatens the Greenbrier River – 3/27/2021, The Register Herald
WV Senate passes DEP-backed bill weakening some water quality standards – 3/26/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail
Bill For Air, Water Quality Rules Clears Senate Judiciary Committee – 3/23/2021, WV Public Broadcasting
Bill that weakens some drinking water human health criteria clears Senate Judiciary – 3/22/2021, Dominion Post
Eric Engle: Water is life, except in WV (Opinion) – 3/22/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail
Senate Judiciary Committee moves water quality standard update closer to passage – 3/22/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail
DEP considering Raleigh County surface mine application that has raised health concerns – 3/22/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail
Kevin Campbell: Manchin should chart new course for WV (Opinion) – 3/16/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail
Water utilities, state environmental regulators wary of bill that would relax oil and gas tank oversight – 3/15/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail
WV House passes easing of water quality standards – 3/12/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail
Nonprofit working with Solar Holler to make solar panels more affordable for co-op members – 3/12/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail
House approves rollback of state regulation of oil and gas tanks near water intakes – 3/10/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail
House passes bill exempting tanks near water intakes – 3/10/2021, MetroNews
More environmental rollbacks moving through West Virginia’s Legislature – 3/8/2021, Mountain State Spotlight
House Judiciary public hearing on water quality rule draws 24 against DEP proposal, 8 in favor – 3/1/2021, Dominion Post
W.Va. House Judiciary Committee Holds First Public Hearing Of 2021 On Water Quality Bill – 3/1/2021, WV Public Broadcasting
House Judiciary Committee holds public hearing on state water quality standard update – 3/1/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail
WV Bills to Relax Water Protections Seen as “Dangerous” – 3/1/2021, Public News Service
February 2021
Clean Water: The People Speak as WV Legislators Decline Hearings – 2/26/2021, Appalachian Chronicle
Dozens speak out against changes to tank bill at public hearing organized separate from Legislature – 2/26/2021, MetroNews
New report predicts power of investments in clean energy infrastructure in WV – 2/25/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail
Proposed rollback of WV oil and gas tank oversight to get closer look before advancing in House – 2/25/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail
David Lillard: Industry can’t be bothered by responsibility (Opinion) – 2/23/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail
House Energy OKs bill to remove 800-plus above-ground storage tanks from 2014 regulatory program – 2/23/2021, Dominion Post
House to consider exempting some tanks near community water supplies from inspection requirements – 2/23/2021, MetroNews
New W.Va. House Bill Offers Exemption For Oil, Gas Industry In Aboveground Storage Tank Act – 2/23/2021, WV Public Broadcasting
Energy and Manufacturing Committee advances rollback of oil and gas waste tank oversight to full House – 2/23/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail
West Virginia lawmakers are limiting access because of COVID. Some critics say the rules have reduced citizen input. – 2/23/2021, Mountain State Spotlight
House committee to consider rollback of oil and gas waste tank oversight – 2/16/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail
DEP budget worries loom over first week of legislative session – 2/16/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail
As Legislature convenes, public won’t be where the public discourse is – 2/7/2021, MetroNews
Mountain Valley Pipeline faces $303,000 state fine for continued erosion, but pipeline opponents call for bigger penalty – 2/5/2021, Charleston Gazette-Mail
WV Office of Oil and Gas Short on Inspectors – 2/5/2021, MetroNews
DEP to cut more than third of its staff – 2/5/2021, Dominion Post
Lawmakers, Advocates Call To Fully Fund State Oil And Gas Regulator – 2/4/2021, WV Public Broadcasting
Mountain Valley Pipeline cited again for erosion and sedimentation violations – 2/4/2021, Roanoke Times
How Democrat Joe Manchin Might Sway The Power Of A Split Senate – 2/1/2021, NPR On Point Podcast
January 2021
Concerns over erosion impact of Mountain Valley Pipeline continue with project in limbo – 1/28/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail
Faced with yet another legal hurdle, Mountain Valley Pipeline changes water permit application approach – 1/26/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail
One coal state senator holds the key to Biden’s ambitious climate agenda. And it’s not McConnell. – 1/25/2021, Washington Post
Safe Water Collaborative preserves thousands of acres to protect clean drinking water – 1/21/2021, The Journal
Justice names environmental protection chief from agency’s ranks, Harold Ward – 1/20/2020, MetroNews
Federal commission slows Mountain Valley Pipeline – 1/20/2021, Charleston Gazette Mail
Environmental groups set goals for legislative session – 1/17/2021, MetroNews
Atlantic Coast Pipeline restoration planned to start later in WV than other states – 1/6/2021, Charleston Gazette-Mail
December 2020
Weakened water quality standards remain point of contention as joint legislative committee advances them to full Legislature – 12/20/2020, Charleston Gazette-Mail
Climate Change in W.Va: “Who cares about climate change 50 years down the line when I’m trying to put food on the table” – 12/17/2020, WVBOY.com
DEP Secretary Austin Caperton announces he’s leaving as Justice’s first term concludes – 12/15/2020, MetroNews
Federal regulators are rewriting environmental rules so a massive pipeline can be built across West Virginia – 12/8/2020, Mountain State Spotlight
Federal appeals court explains stay of Mountain Valley Pipeline waterbody construction – 12/2/2020, Charleston Gazette-Mail
Climate Change in W.Va.: ‘Nobody Wants to Drink Unsafe Water’ – 12/1/2020, WVBOY.com
November 2020
Destruction, Disease, and Deception: The Basics on Global Warming – Climate Change in W.Va. – WBOY, 11/18/2020
Talkline with Hoppy Kercheval – MetroNews, 11/18/2020
Court Again Bars Mountain Valley Pipeline From Stream, River Construction – WV Public Broadcasting, 11/10/2020
Federal Court Suspends Mountain Valley Pipeline Construction – WBOY, 11/9/2020
Federal court grants stay of Mountain Valley Pipeline waterbody construction – Charleston Gazette Mail, 11/9/2020
October 2020
Safe Panhandle water, land conservation collaboration announced – Herald Media, 10/11/2020
Opponents seek further delay of work on Mountain Valley Pipeline – Roanoke Times, 10/6/2020
September 2020
WV Rivers Coalition Welcomes New Campaigns Coordinator – Parsons Advocate, 9/28/2020
Mountain Valley Pipeline foes file challenge to reissued stream-crossing permits – Roanoke Times, 9/28/2020
Mountain Valley Pipeline regains permit to cross streams, wetlands – Roanoke Times, 9/25/2020
Climate change guide released by coalition of WV environment, social justice groups – Charleston Gazette Mail, 9/22/2020
Newly formed West Virginia environmental group presents climate report – MetroNews, 9/21/2020
Trump Administration seeks to relax oil drilling rules through U.S. Forest Service rule change – WOWKTV, 9/9/2020
August 2020
Senate Report Calls for Natural Solutions to Battle Climate Change – PNS, 8/31/2020
Hold reps to task on climate – News and Sentinel, 8/28/2020
President signs Great American Outdoors Act into law – Fayette Tribune, 8/10/2020
July 2020
ReImagine Appalachia seeks greener, more economically and racially just region – Pittsburgh Business Times, 7/22/2020
Op-ed: Better alternatives to extraction industry dependence – News and Sentinel, 7/11/2020
Efforts underway to save natural gas pipeline; environmental fight looms – WOWK, 7/7/2020
June 2020
Manchin spearheads ‘Great American Outdoors Act’ – WVVA News, 6/11/2020
Great American Outdoors Act and Wildlife – Dominion Post, 6/11/2020
Manchin lauds Great American Outdoors Act as a huge step forward – MetroNews, 6/11/2020
John McCoy: Congress takes up measure to properly fund public lands – Charleston Gazette-Mail, 6/13/2020
West Virginia environmentalists criticize proposal to relax water protections – Bay Journal, 6/16/2020
Senate passes Manchin’s Great American Outdoors Act – Montgomery Herald, 6/25/2020
Millions of Americans think they’re safe from flood waters. They aren’t – USA Today, 6/29/2020