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

Jun. 25--"Bring sexy back." Those famous Justin Timberlake lyrics were thrown around several times at a forum discussing workforce shortages and talent attraction and retention. There's still a labor shortage in Hampton Roads and without diversification in the economy and less dependence on the defense industry, growing companies won't be able to find adequately talented and skilled employees. ... Read More

Jun. 25--RACCOON TWP. -- Although it will still be a few years before Shell Chemicals' ethane cracker plant is operating, construction on the Falcon Pipeline that will feed the plant is well underway. On Friday, a work crew was in Raccoon Township Municipal Park excavating and toiling on the pipe about 10 feet below ground with the drilling site at the nearby Dollar General on Route 18. ... Read More

It's hard to count how many times Virginia environmental regulators have been asked to stop work on the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Since construction of the natural gas pipeline began last year - and was quickly followed by problems with storm runoff clogging nearby streams with sediment - state lawmakers, advocacy groups and individuals have asked the Department of Environmental Quality to ... Read More

Jun. 12--A new home for a Sag Harbor performing arts center, a proposed movie studio in Port Washington, academic buildings on college campuses and a YMCA in Lake Success are among the more than 50 proposals vying for "priority project" status and the state money that often comes with it. The Long Island Regional Economic Development Council, which makes funding recommendations, heard ... Read More

NEW CASTLE - The Delaware National Guard officially broke ground for a new $36 million maintenance facility during a Monday ceremony at the River Road Training Site. Once finished, the new 61,000 square foot Combined Surface Maintenance Shop will replace two aging maintenance buildings that were constructed in 1952 and 1987. "This replaces the current building that was built during the Korean ... Read More

June 03-- Jun. 3--Allegheny County's aviation chief says the authority she runs has no choice but to spend at least $1.1 billion to overhaul Pittsburgh International Airport less than 30 years after it opened as a hub for the former US Airways. Changes in the airline industry, local air service and the region's economy warrant the investment, and mounting maintenance costs make it prudent, ... Read More