West Virginia

Abandoned oil and natural gas wells are scattered throughout West Virginia and the surrounding region, leaking toxic pollutants into the atmosphere, and the state doesn’t know where all of them are.

River ferries were a central part of life for many Ohio River communities generations ago, when they were a necessity for trade and transportation.

But for years, officials have ignored their own, completed plans for how to prevent these kinds of disasters from happening in the first place.

In West Virginia, the year culminated in a series of tumultuous events, from strikes to union drives, across Huntington, Charleston and the southern coalfields.

Obesity has been a long-standing health issue in the Ohio Valley and the pandemic has made it worse.

The regulatory snag shows the limits of what supporters of West Virginia’s coal plants can do to keep them from shutting down as the country moves away from fossil fuels.

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.

“My grandfather was an underground miner, my father grew up at a mine mouth, Carbondale Number Nine was the name of the mine,” Anderson said. “My family has been connected in the energy sector my entire life.”

When Angela Lautner was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2000, she remembers the list price of insulin being approximately $25 per vial. As an airline…

The former nursing assistant pleaded guilty to intentionally using lethal doses of insulin to kill the elderly veterans who ranged in age from 81 to 96.