Six organizations and communities in West Virginia will receive a combined total of $1.6 million of funding from the EPA for brownfield site revitalization. The Town of Bath (Morgan County), the Brooke-Hancock Regional Planning and Development Council, the City of Thomas (Tucker County), the Upshur County Youth Camp, the City of Vienna (Wood County), and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection will each receive between $100,000 and $600,000. These grants were awarded to the communities based on economic disadvantage eligibility, need for environmental cleanup, and tneed for job creation. The West Virginia communities and organizations are among 172 communities and organizati
Earth Conservancy, a Pennsylvania non-profit organization, will receive $600,000 from the EPA to clean up parcels of land in Hanover Township and a segment of the Espy Run stream in Nanticoke in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Historic anthracite mining activity and coal waste disposal scarred the area and left significant acid mine drainage issues. Earth Conservancy is one of 172 communities and organizations selected by the EPA to receive funding for brownfield site revitalization this year. US EPA, May 31, 2017 https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-brownfields-cleanup-funding-announced-earth-conservancy
The United States District Court, District of Columbia, found that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) violated NEPA by failing to adequately consider the project’s environmental effects, including environmental justice impacts, before granting permits to Dakota Access to construct and operate Dakota Access Pipeline under Lake Oahe. The Court remanded the decision back to the Corps, requiring the agency to reconsider its environmental analysis. The Court additionally ordered further briefing to determine whether to halt the construction and operation of the pipeline. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, No. 16-1534, 2017 WL 2573994 (D.D.C. June 14, 2017) This is ju