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Amid an unprecedented respiratory health emergency, wildfire smoke is creating an additional risk

Smoke from thousands of Western wildfires is shrouding the horizon in the Mountain West and imposing yet another respiratory threat upon COVID-weary communities.

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Yellowstone science forecasts climate change crunch for amphibians

Mention Yellowstone National Park and amphibians aren't likely to leap to mind. Yet the frogs, toads and salamanders that live in the 3,500-square miles of protected landscape are indicators of the park's health, as well as environmental changes.

WV Gov. Justice still guides billion-dollar business empire, even though he said he wouldn't
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WV Gov. Justice still guides billion-dollar business empire, even though he said he wouldn't

Last fall, Gov. Jim Justice called reporters to his office in the West Virginia Capitol for a hastily arranged news conference.
Royalty disputes continue as West Virginia's natural gas industry booms
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Royalty disputes continue as West Virginia's natural gas industry booms

For decades, Arnold and Mary Richards collected monthly royalty checks — most recently from $1,000 to $1,500 — for the natural gas sucked up from beneath their West Virginia farm by small, old wells.

WV's largest coal operator fighting back against growing natural gas industry
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WV's largest coal operator fighting back against growing natural gas industry

Three years ago, a group of residents in West Virginia’s northern panhandle formed a new group, the Ohio Valley Jobs Alliance, and declared themselves a “voice for local jobs.”
Slowly but surely, South Carolina's incredibly complex shoreline is losing ground
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Slowly but surely, South Carolina's incredibly complex shoreline is losing ground

Two-thirds of South Carolina’s more than 8,600-mile-long marsh and beach shoreline is eroding, a complex system of edges fraying under an onslaught of an ever-rising sea, a new study found.
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