GRANVILLE — It looks as if Emmett Drive, the popular shortcut from University Town Centre Drive down to Monongahela Boulevard, will remain closed into early August at least. The road […]
Tag: Abandoned Mine Lands
MUB receives positive news on Morgans Run extension project
MORGANTOWN — Residents in approximately three dozen homes in the Morgans Run Road area along Cheat Lake have spent years purchasing, collecting and hauling water due to low-producing wells plagued […]
Federal dollars invested in W.Va. will pay dividends
The new acid mine drainage treatment plant, which will filter and neutralize the tainted water from Richard Mine before it flows into Deckers Creek, came online last week to much […]
Do Justices always pay their debts?
Early last week, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against James “Jay” Justice II (Gov. Jim Justice’s son and current CEO of Bluestone Coal Sales Corp.) and 13 of […]
Jan. 8 letters to the editor
Let’s create jobs cleaning up old mines A lot of work remains to be done to reclaim abandoned mine lands in West Virginia. Before passage of the Surface Mining Control […]
Dec. 4 letters to the editor
Taxpayers left liable for reclamation costs West Virginia has over 173,000 acres of unreclaimed mine land — land that has been mined and left behind by the coal industry. The […]
Manchin, Capito, sign onto Senate bill to allow infrastructure act money to be used for acid mine drainage projects
MORGANTOWN — Sen. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito jointly announced on Tuesday that they’ve signed on to the Senate version of legislation to enable Infrastructure and Jobs Act money […]
Congress must pass the STREAM Act
At the end of March, Rep. David McKinley cosponsored the House version of the Safeguarding Treatment for the Restoration of Ecosystems from Abandoned Mines Act (STREAM Act). The bill is […]
McKinley introduces bill to allow infrastructure act Abandoned Mine Lands money to be used for acid mine drainage projects
MORGANTOWN – Reps. David McKinley, R-W.Va., and Matt Cartwright, R-Pa., joined to introduce a bill in the U.S. House to ensure that Abandoned Mine Lands funding included in the bipartisan […]
Mylan Park Foundation one of nine to receive mine land grant
The Mylan Park Foundation in Morgantown was one of nine organizations recommended by Gov. Jim Justice to receive grant money from the Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization (AMLER) Program, also […]
