Dominion Post reporter David Beard reported today that plans for a cooperative venture between American Environmental Services (AES) and Sweetwater Resources to develop a Marcellus shale wastewater treatment plant at the Morgantown Industrial Park have been dropped.  AES operates a commercial treatment, storage and disposal facility for hazardous and nonhazardous waste in the industrial park. [...]

Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled state legislature gave final approval on Wednesday, June 29th to a $27.15 billion budget that will cut spending by three percent from the current fiscal year. The budget, which does not include any tax increases, would cut about $860 million, a 13% reduction, from public schools and scale back funding considerably for public universities, [...]

Northeast Natural Energy filed suit last week in Monongalia County Circuit Court after the City Council of Morgantown passed an ordinance that bans horizontal fracking within a mile of the city.  Northeast was granted permits by WVDEP to drill and frack two Marcellus wells within 3000 feet of the Morgantown Utility Board public water intake [...]