Diversified forced to speed up well cleanup
Dec 9, 2024 · Under West Virginia law, any well that hasn’t been in production for 12 consecutive months is considered abandoned and must be promptly plugged by its operator.Of the more than 23,000 wells Diversified owns in West Virginia, roughly 2,200 of them are abandoned. The cleanup of abandoned wells has been a growing liability for the state as operators have walked away from their nonproducing ...
Mountain State Spotlight: West Virginia News and Reporting
Jan 8, 2025 · Mountain State Spotlight is a nonprofit investigative newsroom that exists to give West Virginians the information they need to make our state a better place.
Digital 2024 Impact Report — Mountain State Spotlight
Table of contents View this impact report as a pdf Introduction Making West Virginia Better Four years ago, West Virginia was at a crossroads: substance abuse ripping families apart, the coal-based economy bottoming out, trust in government cratering, and a global pandemic bearing down. Legacy media organizations were struggling. …
Utility & internet companies consider fixes to broadband disputes
Dec 10, 2024 · Internet providers, utility companies and West Virginia broadband officials are trying to speed up settling pole attachment disputes that threaten the state’s $1.2 billion broadband expansion, according to proposals from a closed-door task force obtained by …
EPA proposes limits to pollution from chemical plants
Dec 19, 2024 · In 2021 Mountain State Spotlight and ProPublica detailed how majority-Black communities across the country, like Institute in West Virginia, were saddled with a disproportionate health burden from industrial pollution. A ProPublica analysis found that Institute faces an increased cancer risk from industrial air pollution at 36 …
What are West Virginia’s marijuana laws? - Mountain State Spotlight
Jul 23, 2024 · Over the last decade, West Virginia delegates and senators have argued about and modified the state’s marijuana laws. Although lawmakers legalized the drug for medical purposes in 2017, the debate over how to regulate it has continued, with politicians proposing different bills that could make marijuana possession either more or less punishable by the courts.
Patrick Morrisey wins West Virginia governor’s race
Nov 5, 2024 · The building was a key railroad junction for the Industrial Revolution and ground zero for the first nationwide strike, the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. “Just as the Roundhouse was once a beating heart of American industry, we’re committed to making our state a leading force of our nation’s economy,” he said.
West Virginia 2024 voter guide: General election
Donald Trump was the 45th President of the United States, but lost reelection for a second term to Joe Biden. Since leaving office, Trump has faced numerous legal challenges, including charges for illegally conspiring to overturn his 2020 defeat, criminally conspiring to overturn his defeat in Georgia and mishandling classified documents.He was …
Safety officials push back on West Virginia’s ‘quiet zone’
Dec 4, 2024 · Inside West Virginia’s quiet zone, 66-year-old federal restrictions on radio communications strictly limit internet access and service from cell towers to clear the way for a space observatory and a spy listening station.
What you need to know about WV’s assisted-suicide amendment
Oct 22, 2024 · What does the proposed amendment say and do? When you get your ballot, it’s going to say: The purpose of this amendment is to protect West Virginians against medically assisted suicide.. Then it will give you the following instructions: To vote in favor of the Amendment submitted, darken the oval next to “FOR.”