Sep 18 Economy Coal Keeps The Lights On, For Now, At West Virginia’s Mountaineer Plant The first thing that strikes you about the Mountaineer power plant is its sheer size. Its stacks rise more than 1,000 feet over the Ohio River floodplain, almost as tall as the Empire State Building. Its massive cooling tower can hold 8.5 million gallons of water. A 20-story building houses its 1,330-megawatt generator. It produces […] By Curtis Tate Sep 18 Economy Coal Keeps The Lights On, For Now, At West Virginia’s Mountaineer Plant Curtis Tate
Aug 27 Economy Recovery Through Employment: ARC Funding Makes Ohio Valley Programs Possible Jessica Stapleton was in the thralls of active addiction when she first heard of the Recovery to Work program. She had lost the trust of her family and custody of her six children. She credits the program with not only changing her life, but saving it as well. “It pretty much saved my life. I […] By Kaitlin Thorne Aug 27 Economy Recovery Through Employment: ARC Funding Makes Ohio Valley Programs Possible Kaitlin Thorne
Aug 23 Economy Virginia Regulators Reject Plan to Extend Life of 2 West Virginia Coal Plants The Virginia Corporation Commission on Monday rejected Appalachian Power’s plan to keep the John Amos and Mountaineer power plants in West Virginia operating through 2040. The commission denied the company permission to make wastewater treatment upgrades at the plants and pass the cost on to electric power customers in the state. Not making those upgrades […] By Curtis Tate Aug 23 Economy Virginia Regulators Reject Plan to Extend Life of 2 West Virginia Coal Plants Curtis Tate
Jul 30 Economy Five Months Later, Eastern Kentuckians Are Still Coping with Fallout of Spring Flooding Early on a rainy March morning in Jackson, Kentucky, Yolanda Goff found herself abandoning her trailer on Quicksand Road forever. She didn’t think the floodwater would crest so high, but when she woke that morning, it was in the yard and rising fast. She had a few minutes to salvage everything she could, get her […] By Katie Myers and Corinne Boyer Jul 30 Economy Five Months Later, Eastern Kentuckians Are Still Coping with Fallout of Spring Flooding Katie Myers and Corinne Boyer
Jul 22 Economy Families receive sorely needed child tax credit payments The Robsons, like the vast majority of U.S. households with children, began receiving the Child Tax Credit last week – the latest part of the American Rescue Plan to be put into action. Jaclyn Robson says it was sorely needed. “I don’t want to have to work 60 hours a week just to make a […] By Kaitlin Thorne Jul 22 Economy Families receive sorely needed child tax credit payments Kaitlin Thorne
Jul 16 Economy Kentucky Regulators: West Virginia Coal Plant Should Close in 2028 Kentucky utility regulators reached a decision this week that could mean a northern West Virginia power plant will have to close years sooner than planned. The Kentucky Public Service Commission on Thursday rejected Kentucky Power’s request to perform environmental compliance work on the Mitchell Plant near Moundsville, West Virginia. Under federal rules, the coal-burning plant […] By Curtis Tate Jul 16 Economy Kentucky Regulators: West Virginia Coal Plant Should Close in 2028 Curtis Tate
Jul 2 Economy Nearly Half A Million In Ohio Valley Lose Jobless Benefits An analysis by the Ohio Valley ReSource showed that roughly 488,000 people in Ohio and West Virginia have lost supplemental unemployment payments after Republican governors there scrapped the federal unemployment benefit programs put in place during the pandemic. Another 65,000 people in Kentucky eligible for the payments await a decision by the Democratic governor there […] By Suhail Bhat Jul 2 Economy Nearly Half A Million In Ohio Valley Lose Jobless Benefits Suhail Bhat
Jun 30 Economy Kentucky’s AG Cameron on West Virginia Coal Plant: Close It Environmental and consumer groups have pushed for the early closure of a 50-year-old coal-fired power plant in West Virginia that serves electricity customers in both West Virginia and Kentucky. They have an unlikely ally: Kentucky’s Republican attorney general, Daniel Cameron. In a filing last week with the Kentucky Public Service Commission, Cameron recommended the commission […] By Curtis Tate Jun 30 Economy Kentucky’s AG Cameron on West Virginia Coal Plant: Close It Curtis Tate
Jun 9 Economy West Virginia Coal Plants Need Upgrades. Three States Will Decide Their Fate. They’ve towered over the region’s communities for decades. They generated the electricity for homes around the Ohio Valley. They burned coal, a fossil fuel Appalachia has in abundance. But three West Virginia coal-fired power plants owned by Ohio-based American Electric Power may be on borrowed time. The Mitchell Plant in Moundsville, the Mountaineer Plant in […] By Curtis Tate Jun 9 Economy West Virginia Coal Plants Need Upgrades. Three States Will Decide Their Fate. Curtis Tate