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Two Wood County residents sue Chemours over PFAS contamination near landfill (opens the original)
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WASHINGTON, W.Va. (WTAP) - Two Wood County residents filed a federal class action lawsuit Thursday against Chemours, alleging years of PFAS contamination from a landfill at the company’s Washington Works plant. Jason Goff and Aimee Cross filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. Goff lives on South Oak Street in Washington, West Virginia. Cross lives in the Club Drive/Lake Washington subdivision. Both properties are near the Chemours Local Landfill, which sits
Point Pleasant man taken to hospital after car hit by train (opens the original)
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BELLEVILLE, W. Va. (WTAP) - A Point Pleasant man is in hospital after his car was hit by a train. According to a news release from the Wood County Sheriff’s Office, 61-year-old Gregory Grimm was about halfway across the railroad crossing when his car was struck by the train. It happened at the intersection of Harris Highway (Route 68) and Belleville Drive shortly after 9 a.m. Friday. Grimm’s 2019 Kia Sorento was pushed approximately half a mile from the crash site. Grim was taken to a hospital i
Orphan well explosion survivor shares recovery story (opens the original)
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WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ohio (WTAP) - It has been just over a year since an explosion at an orphan well site in Washington County killed two men and left survivors burned. Remington Weckbacher has spent the past year rebuilding his life, physically and mentally, with his wife, Emma, by his side. Just after 11 a.m. on Aug. 25, 2025, Weckbacher was working to plug an orphan well when it “kicked,” a term oil and gas workers use for a sudden, uncontrolled surge of gas and oil back up the wellbore. The ga
W.Va. lawmakers press human services chief over school clothing benefits program (opens the original)
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WTAP) - A West Virginia legislative committee spent more than an hour Tuesday pressing the state’s new human services secretary on the state’s school clothing voucher program, after Gov. Patrick Morrisey contended that recipients are pulling the money out as untraceable cash. Secretary Carl Ayers, who has led the Department of Human Services for less than a month, told the Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability that roughly half of the $2
Environmental group deploys air monitors across Parkersburg area after warehouse fire (opens the original)
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PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) - A local environmental group has deployed six air quality monitors around the Parkersburg area following Sunday’s fire at the Peoples Cartage warehouse facility. Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action placed PurpleAir monitors in Parkersburg, Williamstown and along Volcano Road near Mountwood Park. The devices track fine particulate matter and volatile organic compounds, with readings available to residents in real time at map.purpleair.com. Climate Action President Eric Engle
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