West Virginia Weatherization Grant Boosts Low Income Homes
The U S Department of Energy awarded West Virginia a 3.2 million dollar grant to weatherize homes used by low income residents. Weatherization is projected to cut annual energy costs by about 218 dollars per home according to Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham. The state Office of Economic Opportunity will distribute the funds as part of a Weatherization Assistance Program that has grown 50 percent from 2001 levels. In a separate decision, the state Surface Mine Board allowed broader DEP discretion on pre mining well surveys to protect drinking water near mining sites. Rockspring Development Co of East Lynn challenged the shift, arguing for limited sampling. DEP insists on 12 monthly samples per well.
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Charleston
U.S. Department of Energy
West Virginia
U.S
State Surface Mine Board
Rockspring Development Co
East Lynn
Rockspring
Wayne County
Department of Environmental Protection
DEP
Bill Simmons
Virginia
Shackleford
Abbott
Mining and water projects outlined in Department notice
The notice details two mining site closures and drainage repairs near Route 715 and Crooked Branch in Virginia, plus a Home Creek Water Project to extend a safe public water supply to about 200 households in western Buchanan County. It covers mine portal sealing, hazard abatement, and future system extensions toward Hurley.
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Crooked Branch
Haysi
Dickenson County
Home Creek
Por
Buchanan County
Public Service Authority
Big Rock
Roseann
Hurley
Family ties dismiss civil case over Keystone bank collapse
Several relatives by marriage of a former Keystone Bank chairperson have settled with the FDIC and were dismissed as defendants in a federal civil case linked to the First National Bank of Keystone failure. Cherry and her former husband face sentencing for embezzling over 4.2 million from J Knox McConnell estate.
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Bluefield
First National Bank of Keystone
Andrew T. Rapoff
Keystone
Billie J. Cherry
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Danny Rapoff
David Rapoff
Michael Rapoff
Andrew J. Rapoff
Nancy E. Kelahan
Donna Marie Scott
U.S
David A. Faber
Southern District of
West Virginia
Waynesburg College
Terry L. Church
FDIC
Rapoff
Tennessee man gets suspended five year sentence in construction death case
Kelly D. Cox of Winfield was sentenced in Tazewell County Circuit Court to a five year term that was suspended with active probation after a no contest plea to involuntary manslaughter in the Dec 16 1999 Walmart building fall that killed construction worker Jessie Lee Hampton. Hampton died after falling 21 feet through a skylight at the Claypool Hill site. Cox led CSEC steel erection. the case noted no safety training or harnesses for Hampton.
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Tazewell
Tennessee
Tazewell County
Kelly D. Cox
Winfield, Tenn
Barnard Jennings
Cox
CSEC
Wal-Mart
Claypool Hill
Jessie Lee Hampton
Richlands
Hampton
Dennis Lee
Lee
Jennings
Bill Archer
Barcher
Bottonline
Virginia mine lands await federal grant for reclamation efforts
Virginia officials outline seven counties including Tazewell Buchanan Dickenson Wise and Montgomery will share federal funds for abandoned mine land reclamation. Water projects in Wise and Buchanan counties qualify as restoration efforts to offset mining impacts while Russell Lee and Scott counties also gain. Officials emphasize safety and environmental restoration plus return of federal tax money to states.
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Tazewell
Buchanan
Dickenson
Wise
Montgomery
Russell, Lee
Scott
Allen
Commonwealth
Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy
Interior Department
Mike Abbott
Abbott
Virginia
Dink Shackleford
The
Virginia Mining Association
Virginia Sees Fewer Stores Sell Tobacco to Minors
Virginia retailers still sell to underage buyers but the share fell from 27 percent in 1998 to 18 percent in recent years. The Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation funds about 400 compliance checks monthly, praising the decline as proof of progress toward reducing youth tobacco use.
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Richmond
Virginia
Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation
State Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control
Department
Foundation
National Tobacco Settlement
Marty Kilgore
WTSF
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