WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (TNSFR) -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to disapprove a revision to West Virginia's State Implementation Plan (SIP) that was submitted by the state's Department of Environmental Protection on August 12, 2022. This revision was aimed at addressing visibility impairment in national parks and wilderness areas, in line with the Clean Air Act and the EPA's Regional Haze Rule (RHR). If finalized, the disapproval will not trigger mandatory sanctions, but   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (TNSFR) -- Marshall University has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, determining a cultural affiliation between these items and several Native American tribes. The remains and objects were originally excavated in 1980 from the Childers Site in Mason County, West Virginia, by the University of Akron Field School. The human remains were later transferred to Marshall University. In the early 1990s, they were temporarily sent to a graduat  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (TNSFR) -- Marshall University has completed an inventory of human remains, identifying them as belonging to at least one individual of Native American ancestry. The remains, discovered in September 2023 within a collection at the university's Geology Department, were linked to the Huntington Mound in Cabell County, West Virginia. The remains were originally exhumed in 1959 by a group of archaeologists, and they were later donated to the university by avocational archaeolog  more