The City of Logan Fire Department sending crews to help battle a catastrophic inferno in Wood County as a warehouse has now been burning for days. The fire was reported early Sunday morning at the Peoples Cartage, Inc. warehouse in Parkersburg and had seemingly been extinguished. However, it reignited and completely engulfed the structure.

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is defending its oversight of a Boone County coal mine permit that federal regulators have been reviewing for months. State officials are defending their handling of violations at the Twilight Surface Mine after a federal review was launched over environmental concerns. The state says it has taken enforcement action and argues the state, not federal regulators, has authority over the permit. WVOW News TWILIGHT State o

The West Virginia Department of Health issued an update last week on the transformer oil spill in Wyoming County that leaked into the Guyandotte watershed. Photo of transformer oil spill distributed to news outlets by the WVDEP Robert Fields | WVOW News CLEAR FORK The spill occurred in January at an Appalachian Power substation in the Clear Fork area just south of Oceana. Melting ice and snow in February accelerated the stream’s flow, resulting in what the WVDOH described a

The WVDEP says testing has so far not shown contamination in the Town of Wayne's water system, but is still advising residents to avoid using their water while investigations continue into the leak from an AEP substation. Robert Fields | WVOW News TOWN OF WAYNE Residents in Wayne County were told not to drink, bathe or even cook with their tap water following an oil leak originating in the East Lynn area over the weekend. The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protec

WVDEP Division of Air Quality (DAQ) New Source Review (NSR) Program Manager Joe Kessler addressed the role of the DAQ in certifying...

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is accepting entries for the 23rd Annual "Roadsides in Bloom" calendar contest....

News Release CHARLESTON Three educators recognized as West Virginia Environmental Teachers of the Year by the West Virginia Department...

LYBURN Tire collection event planned for later this month in Logan County The Logan County Solid Waste Authority, in conjunction with the...