Union Carbide

Courtland Co., which owns property adjacent to the South Charleston landfill, has filed four lawsuits against Union Carbide since 2018.

On this West Virginia Morning, a trial begins Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in Charleston with Union Carbide as the defendant. The company was sued by a property owner in South Charleston alleging contamination from an industrial landfill Union Carbide owns. The lawsuit argues the company violated state and federal law and needs to pay civil penalties.

In a court filing this week, Union Carbide asked U.S. District Judge John Copenhaver to limit what Charleston attorney Michael Callaghan can say in court.

In a letter to the Department of Environmental Protection, Charleston attorney Michael Callaghan says the company shouldn’t be allowed to clean up the site without paying civil penalties.

An attorney for the Courtland Company has filed a new complaint in U.S. district court in Charleston over water pollution from an industrial landfill that Union Carbide owns.

On this West Virginia Morning, a recent episode of Inside Appalachia reflected on the past year of the pandemic and the long road ahead for recovery. Also, in this show, a federal judge in Charleston has ruled in favor of Union Carbide in a lawsuit, and we have legislative updates from the statehouse.

In a 90-page decision published Monday, Senior U.S. District Court Judge John Copenhaver denied an application for a temporary restraining order against Union Carbide by the Courtland Co.

On this West Virginia Morning, in the late 1960s in Huntington, a group of young people began printing pamphlets under the publishing label Appalachian Movement Press. We hear about a journey to learn more. Also, we have an update on the Union Carbide lawsuit, the latest on state legislative action and an update on the coronavirus pandemic in West Virginia.

Two weeks after a three-day hearing in front of Senior U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, there is still no decision from the judge about the Temporary Restraining Order.

Senior U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia has scheduled a hearing on the motion for the Temporary Restraining Order for tomorrow at 10 a.m.