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Unlocking Options for Renters & Landlords in the Pandemic

March 5, 2021

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February 26, 2021

2021 American Conservation Film Festival

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Exhibit at Berkeley Art Works Celebrates Historic African-American Cemetery

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Book Review: Pop

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March 5 — Virtual Concert: A Celtic Celebration

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Feeling The Heartbeat Of Spring Emerging

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Take An Online Art Class This March At Berkeley Art Works

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Connecting Solar In Jefferson County

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Poisoned Land

July 1, 2020 Tagged With: Appalachia, book review, Fracking, groundwater, natural gas, water pollution

Book cover for novel called Lady Chevy by John Woods

The cover of John Woods’ debut novel Lady Chevy portrays a mountain landscape against an orange-hued backdrop. The colors may depict an oddly-tinted sunset or, more likely, the fiery, sulfurous sky of a land ravaged by the fracking industry, where flares emerging from giant towers light the horizon and tainted aquifers, flammable tap water, and earthquakes have become a normal occurrence. Read the Full Story >>

Maryland Pipeline Vote Creates Potential Roadblock for Rockwool

January 30, 2019 Tagged With: Mountaineer Gas, natural gas, pipeline, rockwool

The Eastern Panhandle Expansion Project pipeline would, if built, run from Fulton county, PA, to Jefferson County, WV. The middle portion of the pipeline from Berkeley Springs, WV, to Martinsburg, WV, is almost complete. The portion of the pipeline through the state of Maryland, however, is still in the approval stage—construction has not begun. The terminus of the pipeline in Jefferson county, WV, would be the highly controversial, highly polluting insulation factory run by the Danish multinational, Rockwool. Eastern Panhandle Protectors opposes this proposed coal- and fracked-gas-fueled facility and the pipeline that would provide the gas. Read the Full Story >>

Eastern Panhandle Awaits Gas Distribution Lines

September 20, 2016 Tagged With: Mountaineer Gas, natural gas

Mountaineer Gas recently filed an application with the West Virginia Public Service Commission (PSC) for distribution line expansion in Berkeley, Jefferson, and Morgan Counties. The company expects a decision from the PSC in November, after public hearings are held in October, said Moses Skaff, Mountaineer Gas senior vice president. Read the Full Story >>

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