Reporting on the environment and energy for @wvgazettemail. Formerly @hsuniontown and @DailyPenn. Editor of @IvyHoopsOnline. Email: [email protected]
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A federal lawsuit has revealed that West Virginia's attorney general is citing state consumer protection law to target environmental groups with investigatory subpoenas: wvgazettemail.com/news/energ…
DEP permit applications for Nscale's Mason County data center complex predict significant potential environmental impacts to come after the project already has racked up a string of violations issued by the agency: wvgazettemail.com/news/energ…
The Gazette-Mail, with @pulitzercenter support, provided water testing that revealed public health risks from West Virginians' well water throughout the state: wvgazettemail.com/news/energ…
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Seems like a strong piece of local accountability reporting, the kind @Mike__Tony so often does for @wvgazettemail.
Finally just read Mike Tony’s story. Beyond providing additional details I don’t quite get the panic over it. It’s a solid piece based on public doc requests.
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Records show West Virginia's water and wastewater infrastructure investment in the southern coalfields has been disproportionately low under Gov. Morrisey. Meanwhile, a key source of water and sewer system upgrade funding statewide is slated to expire: wvgazettemail.com/news/energ…
Mike Tony retweeted
Good Capitol news catch by @Mike__Tony in this story: the state’s economic development official boasted data center project transparency with developers
West Virginia's interim legislative session this week underscored dearths of state government information on data centers and the government itself: wvgazettemail.com/news/legis…
West Virginia's interim legislative session this week underscored dearths of state government information on data centers and the government itself: wvgazettemail.com/news/legis…
West Virginia data center secrecy and pollution issues are growing amid intensifying AI security fears - and increasingly coordinated community resistance across the state to data center project momentum: wvgazettemail.com/news/energ…
At this week's West Virginia Chamber Annual Meeting & Business Summit, political and business leaders ignored the high public health costs from data centers, suggesting they know better than West Virginians and other states' leaders wary of them: wvgazettemail.com/news/energ…
The wide-ranging environmental health dangers of data center campus operations planned for Putnam and Mason counties have become clearer, and they're driving increasingly dogged resident opposition in the face of a state government backing the projects: wvgazettemail.com/news/energ…
Mike Tony retweeted
Charleston Gazette-Mail reporter Mike Tony (@Mike__Tony) is the recipient of a Local Business Journalism Fellowship awarded by the National Press Foundation.
The fellowship program will offer selected local news reporters nationwide the opportunity to have exclusive briefings with economists, small business owners and other experts.
Congratulations from all of us at the Charleston Gazette-Mail, Mike!
👉 Read more about the fellowship here: bit.ly/4zB9fMh
It’s an honor to be selected for this fellowship and pursue this opportunity to glean insight from experts that will help me dig further into businesses and nonprofits. The @NatPress knows how to support journalists.
NPF has selected 34 journalists nationwide for the October 2026 Local Business Journalism Fellowship. Fellows will travel to Chicago, Illinois, Oct. 5-8, for exclusive briefings with economists, small business owners and other experts. 📂💼
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Shoutout to great WV reporter @Mike__Tony for this story on Morrisey office’s history of public information delays and denials. Good read. wvgazettemail.com/news/legal…
Retirees of Sen. Justice's coal companies are living with yet another lapse in contractually promised healthcare and prescription drug coverage: wvgazettemail.com/news/legal…
The DEP has signed off on an assertion by the developer of a massive data center-linked project planned for Tucker and Grant counties that it controls a site where it plans to do business, setting aside evidence that the company doesn't own the site: wvgazettemail.com/news/energ…
The DEP has approved an air quality permit for a planned, state taxpayer-supported plastics conversion facility near Belle whose projected environmental health impacts and murky economic future have triggered fears among local residents: wvgazettemail.com/news/energ…
How Gov. Morrisey's two-day southern West Virginia water listening tour was marred by secrecy and distrust amid what state records indicate has been persisting underinvestment in the area's water infrastructure - and its people: wvgazettemail.com/news/energ…
Union Carbide and Covestro are looking to throw out expert testimony against them in a federal class-action lawsuit contending an elevated risk of cancer from toxic ethylene oxide from their operations in South Charleston: wvgazettemail.com/news/energ…
"West Virginians deserve better." The EPA plans to eliminate its public participation requirements for air quality permits common for data center and other industrial projects like those driving environmental health fears across West Virginia: wvgazettemail.com/news/energ…
