Energy & Environment

Next week, the West Virginia Public Service Commission will hear Appalachian Power’s request to recover $297 million from ratepayers.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has extended the deadline for Eastern Kentucky residents to apply for aid from last July’s flooding.

The Pleasants Power Plant in Pleasants County is scheduled to shut down next year, but there’s still a chance someone will buy it.

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin is building support on Capitol Hill for his permitting reform legislation for energy projects. But he’s still short of the votes he needs.

A total of 20,000 quail are set to be stocked in seven locations around the state through October with 12,000 already having been released since August.

The company went back to the Virginia State Corporation Commission about a year after the body rejected its plan for the John Amos and Mountaineer power plants.

The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced a supplemental payment will be issued to individuals who received Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP) assistance in the 2022 program year.

The money comes as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law last year by the Biden administration. It adds to the $25 million awarded earlier this year to the state’s Drinking Water and Clean Water Revolving Funds.

Manchin told reporters at the Capitol Tuesday that he’s encountered opposition from Republicans to what he, and they, want to achieve: faster permitting for projects like the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

Two of coal’s pollution legacies are acid mine drainage, the waste from mining coal, and fly ash, waste from burning coal. For years, some energy companies have put the waste into wet or dry storage impoundments.