Air Pollution

On this West Virginia Morning, First Lady Jill Biden is expected to arrive in West Virginia Thursday, but what is The Office of the First Lady anyway? We explore its role. Also, no one has yet received the governor’s promised $100 savings bond for getting the COVID-19 vaccine, and we have a conversation about trees and pollution.

Air pollution can actually cause forests to grow faster, as the nitrogen in acid rain is a fertilizer. The problem is, it makes the trees weaker and more susceptible to storm damage.

Pandemic lockdowns reduced air pollution in some places around the world but those changes weren’t as pronounced in Appalachia. Much of the air pollution from this region comes from industry and electric generation, as compared to driving.

A new study finds the closure of coal-fired power plants and transition to natural gas generation across the United States over a decade saved an…

Adding plants and trees to the landscape could reduce air pollution by an average of 27 percent, according to a new study. Specialists in environmental…

A new study finds that planting trees to reduce air pollution is cheaper than investing in most emissions reducing technologies. Researchers analyzed…

This summer will mark one year since thousands of residents in Jefferson County, West Virginia started a movement to rally against a Denmark-based company…

Community members from Jefferson County, West Virginia and nearby areas came together last weekend to hear from scientific experts from around the country…

A new report released today by the American Lung Association finds fine particle, or soot, pollution continues to improve across West Virginia, but smog…

President Donald Trump picked West Virginia as the place to announce he'd roll back pollution rules for coal-fired power plants. But he didn't mention…