By MICHAEL ERB The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — More than 500 pages of material safety data sheets show a range of mundane and potentially toxic products which could have been stored in the IEI Plastics warehouse in south Parkersburg which burned for more than a week in[Read More…]
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Recycling industry weighs in on IEI fire
By MICHAEL KELLY The Parkersburg News and Sentinel MARIETTA, W.Va. — Representatives of the recycling industry have been quick to try to put some distance between their businesses and the Parkersburg site where a week-long industrial fire took place in October. The Intercontinental Export Import operation at the former Ames[Read More…]
Revitalizing Princeton: Business growth, renovations changing atmosphere of city
By CHARLES BOOTHE Bluefield Daily Telegraph PRINCETON, W.Va. — Anyone driving down Mercer Street in Princeton can quickly notice the changes made in recent years, with new businesses, beautification projects and building renovations. From the coming reopening of the iconic Jimmy’s Restaurant and a new microbrewery to the Princeton Renaissance[Read More…]
Year closes on first public industrial hemp grown in decades
By MATT COMBS The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — According to “The Columbia History of the World,” the oldest relic of human industry, a small piece of hemp fabric, dates back to approximately 8,000 B.C. Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp and, at times, its growth was mandatory to[Read More…]
Shoppers buy local in support of Small Business Saturday
By JORDAN NELSON The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Pop-up shops were scattered all across downtown Beckley Saturday as a part of Small Business Saturday, a day celebrated all over the region, in which small, independent businesses sell their unique gift items to locals in hopes of them finding that perfect[Read More…]
Nation’s first mechanical biological treatment – waste-to-fuel facility to open in Martinsburg
By MARLA HAISLIP The State Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Located on Grapevine Road adjacent to a well-established recycling center on 12 acres is a 55,000 square-foot building under construction that is designed to turn household and municipal solid waste into solid fuel. The cost of the project by Entsorga West[Read More…]
EPA expects 271 people to speak on Clean Power Plan repeal
Staff reports The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Environmental Protection Agency expects at least 271 people to offer comments when it visits Charleston Tuesday and Wednesday regarding the Clean Power Plan. That’s how many people have been given speaking slots, according to the preliminary speaker list released Nov. 22.[Read More…]
UN expert to visit Charleston, study effects of effort to end poverty
By LORI KERSEY Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A United Nations expert on poverty and human rights will visit Charleston next month during a fact-finding trip to the United States. Professor Philip Alston, special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, will travel to the United States during the first[Read More…]
WV Supreme Court: Former police lab director’s free speech not violated
By LACIE PIERSON Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Supreme Court last week affirmed a 2016 ruling that the former director of the West Virginia State Police forensic laboratory was not acting as a private citizen when she talked to legislators about issues at the lab in 2014.[Read More…]
Marshall University social work professor focused on positive change
By MEGAN ARCHER The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — He looks up from his iPad and gives a warm smile. Philip Carter, a social work professor at Marshall University, has asked to meet at Rocco’s Little Italy where he often goes for a quick meal. Standing at 6 feet 6 inches tall[Read More…]
