Warminster Township officials thought they had finally found the best way to remove toxic PFAS chemicals from the township’s drinking water: An ion-exchange treatment system. Pilot tests showed that the system effectively got rid of the undesirable chemicals. Plus, the technology lasts longer than alternatives and requires less space, and the military, which is funding some of the ... Read More

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A proposed $248 million settlement has been filed in a decade-old federal court case over defective Chinese drywall blamed for damaging home appliances and sickening residents. The proposed settlement between property owners and Taishan Gypsum Co. was filed in U.S. District Court in New Orleans on Tuesday. It comes nearly eight years after a major settlement in another case ... Read More

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio-based energy company says it's closing its last coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania nearly two years earlier than expected. FirstEnergy Solutions said Friday that its plant in Shippingport will be idled Nov. 7. The company had previously said the Bruce Mansfield plant would be shut down in June 2021. FirstEnergy, which is going through bankruptcy reorganization, ... Read More

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - The new owner of the former Reddy Ice Corp. plant in Martinsburg has obtained a permit from the city to demolish a significant portion of the industrial facility off North Raleigh Street. Martinsburg Land LLC of Capitol Heights, Md., acquired the two-acre ice plant at 400 W. Moler Ave. and four lots across Factory Street from the facility for $225,000 from Green Industrial ... Read More

RICHMOND, Va. - FedEx Field is just 22 years old but a concrete relic of stadiums past, with the clock ticking on its status as an NFL building. Washington's training camp home away from home is only 6 years old and yet it's also on borrowed time. On the field, Washington is three years removed from its last playoff appearance, 27 from the Super Bowl glory years and has missed the postseason ... Read More

SPRING MILLS, W.Va. - Construction of a new Wendy's restaurant is progressing, and it is expected to open in early fall. Corporate officials are already looking forward to a grand opening and planning a celebration to welcome customers, said Tricia Alfaro, marketing manager for NPC International, a franchisee of Wendy's. "Things are moving along really well, and the latest opening date I have ... Read More

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Two West Virginia University researchers have begun a project to help power plants use less water. While it sounds counterintuitive, they're doing it by combining wastewater from power plant cooling towers with wastewater from fracking operations. The cooling towers (right) at the Longview Power plant. The project is in its infant stages, funded by a $400,000 Department of ... Read More

Jun. 25--From a gravel lot in South Allison Hill, Jeannine Peterson directed attention to a neighboring property -- Hamilton Health Center, where 280 people are employed and 101,000 patient visits were recorded last year. On Tuesday, however, Peterson, the health center's chief executive officer, remembered when the site was nothing more than a boarded-up building. "It was a blighted part of ... Read More