Scrubbers Show High Sulfur Removal at Pleasants Plant
At Monongahela Power Pleasants Station on the Ohio River, scrubbers installed since 1979 remove more than 90 percent of sulfur from high sulfur coal. Plant manager Howard Holtzworth says tests exceed design, keeping emissions low while burning coal up to 4.5 percent sulfur. The $180 million system, costing $1 million yearly for lime and labor, uses wet lime and sends sludge to lagoons a mile away.
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Willow Island
W.va
Monongahela Power Co
Pleasants Station
Howard Holtzworth
Pleasants County
Ohio River
West Virginia
Holtzworth
Man Power
Carroll Curry
Allegheny Power System
Curry
Pleasants
Raleigh teachers appeal transfers to Supreme Court
Four Raleigh City teachers petitioned the West Virginia Supreme Court to overturn transfers from Sylvia Elementary to other county schools, claiming retaliation for complaints about the principal. The court voted 5-0 to hear the appeal, with prior circuit court ruling upholding the transfers.
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Gi Harleston
W.va
State Supreme Eed
Raleigh City
Raleigh County
Margaret Holland
Garnette Alexander
Donna Ramsey
Carolyn Webster
Sylvia
William Baker
Baker
Dewey Bone
Supreme Court
Bone
West Virginia Education Association
Jacqueline A. Kinnaman
Circuit
Ms. Kinnaman
State Board of Education
Mistrial Declared In Trial Of Pair Accused In Hanging
A Carter County jury deadlocked 11 to convict Kelly Banner and Donald Grant in the 1981 hanging murder of Ben Tester. The judge declared a mistrial and set a new trial date for March 12 in Sullivan County after pretrial publicity moved the case. Testimony showed Banner and Grant led teenagers to Tester's home to rob him before hanging him from a pickup, with several co-defendants already convicted and serving life terms.
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Blountville
Ben Tester
Grant
Roane Mountain
Sullivan County
David Crockett
Banner
James Bowman
Jer
Max Wilson
Calhoun
Carter
Sullivan
Shelby Casey
Clifford Peele
Tester
Peele
Glenida
Joe Street
Eugene Montgomery
Jeff Causby
Hampton
Tommy Dale Taylor
Casey
Recovery Trend Seen In State's Tax Revenues
West Virginia Finance Commissioner Arnold Margolin outlined a transition from recession to recovery at a Charleston news conference. Five months into the fiscal year, total revenues beat estimates by 28.6 million driven by personal income, consumer sales, and corporate net income taxes. B&O tax lag narrowed as November and year-to-date figures show improvement versus last year.
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Charleston
W.va
West Virginia
Arnold Margolin
Margolin
B&o
Man abandons suit after West Point dismissal
Charles Hook, 22, of Ottawa Kansas, who was expelled from the United States Military Academy at West Point for rule violations days before graduation last May, has dropped his lawsuit. A district judge dismissed the case on Hook's request, and he will serve three years as an enlisted man.
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Jerry Lee Bridwell
West Virginia
Kanawha County
Charleston
Glenna Melton
Bridwell
Supreme Court
Kenneth Holmes
Fenwick
Holmes
Nicholas County
Phillip D. Smith
Ohio County
Corning Glass Works
Berkeley County
Nelson T. Kane
Corning
Kansas City
Kan
Military Academy
West Point
Earl E. O’connor
Charles Hook
Ottawa
Hook
Canadian Scientist Sees Acid Rain as U S Problem
Ontario Ministry adviser Bernard Neary told a Pittsburgh audience that U S emissions are changing Ontario lakes and harming sport fish, with 4 percent too acidic and 13 percent highly sensitive. He noted reductions in sulfur dioxide at Ontario plants but warned eliminating Canadian output alone won’t solve the issue.
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Pittsburgh
United States
Ontario
Bernard Neary
Ministry of the Environment
Neary
Canada
U.S
Sudbury
Reagan
Carter
Charles Caccia
New Jersey
West Germany
Black Forest
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Richmond, Va
Manuel Quintana
Medical College of Virginia
Wayne Farrar
State Corrections Department
Quintana
Nunn Bush
Bet , Gallenkamp Shoes
Mercer Mall
New Amsterdam
New York
V.F.W. Post
Hoover
Edge
Bailey
Bailey Lumber Company
Jusshai
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