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This is a list of Superfund sites in West Virginia designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contamination. [1]
The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is a natural gas pipeline constructed from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia. The MVP is 303 miles (488 km) long, and there is also a proposed Southgate Extension which will run 75 miles (121 km) from Virginia into North Carolina. [ 1 ]
Environmental Protection Agency illustration of the water cycle of hydraulic fracturing. Fracking in the United States began in 1949. [1] According to the Department of Energy (DOE), by 2013 at least two million oil and gas wells in the US had been hydraulically fractured, and that of new wells being drilled, up to 95% are hydraulically fractured.
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Fracking is a hot-button issue in the must-win Keystone State, where it supports around 123,000 jobs and led to more than $41 billion in 2022 economic activity, according to the energy economists ...
Maryland introduced a temporary fracking ban in 2015, [117] which was made permanent in 2017. [118] [119] Washington joined these states by banning hydraulic fracturing in May 2019. [120] A type of fracking technique called slickwater fracking was used in Texas in 1998 to complete natural gas wells in the Barnett Shale. [121]
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of West Virginia, sorted by type and name. In 2022, West Virginia had a total summer capacity of 15,021 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 56,665 GWh. [ 2 ]
In December 2014, the company acquired 413,000 net acres in the Upper Devonian, Marcellus and Utica shales in West Virginia and Southwest Pennsylvania from Chesapeake Energy for $5.375 billion. [4] [5] In December 2018, the company sold its assets in the Fayetteville Shale for net proceeds of $1.65 billion. [6]