This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. Janet Clayton is standing thigh-deep in a back channel of the Elk River. Clad in a wetsuit and knee pads, the silver-haired biologist with the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources reaches into a bright orange mesh bag submerged in water. […]
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One Piece at a Time: Cleaning Trash from W.Va Waterways
It is a hot, muggy day along the Monongahela River. Zoma Archambault is standing on a small, sandy beach about 10 minutes from Morgantown. It is one of the few along the river, as much of it is covered in thick brush and mud. The beach used to be an […]
Read MoreHow Protecting Civil War Battlefields Helps Protect Drinking Water
In 2014, a coal cleaning chemical leaked into the Elk River in Charleston, West Virginia, the drinking water supply for tens of thousands of people in the Kanawha Valley. The chemical couldn’t easily be removed from the water and people in the valley spent more than week unable to drink, […]
Read MoreThese Citizens Stepped in to Protect Their Water When Ohio Did Not
Ten years ago, the fracking industry was already booming in Pennsylvania, but people in Ohio were just starting to hear about it. Many were excited that it would help eastern Ohio’s struggling rural economy. But Leatra Harper worried that the tradeoff would be their health and the environment. Harper says […]
Read MoreW.Va. Senator Among Bipartisan Group Seeking Faster EPA Action on PFAS Chemical Pollution
This article was originally published by the Ohio Valley ReSource.
Read MoreSouthern W.Va. Town Could have Clean Water for First Time in 16 Years
This article was originally published by the Charleston Gazette-Mail. O’TOOLE — Flats of bottled water and dozens of plastic jugs filled with water from a nearby spring crowd three rooms in Janet Long’s home in O’Toole, a small hollow wedged among mountainsides and the Tug Fork River on the eastern side […]
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