Mike Tony

Reporting on the environment and energy for @wvgazettemail. Formerly @hsuniontown and @DailyPenn. Editor of @IvyHoopsOnline. Email: [email protected]

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The threat of a court-ordered takeover of the Justice family's Greenbrier-linked businesses persists after the firm seeking that takeover showed evidence of plummeting property valuation and balked at a financing deal proposed by the debt-riddled Justices: https://t.co/UlsBjnDq2S

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West Virginia's congressional delegates have been quiet regarding a $1.776 billion payout fund set up by the Trump administration that government ethics and law experts have widely condemned as an abuse of taxpayer dollars and power: https://t.co/PDjdTFygsA

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New audit reports show heavy financial, pulmonary and other workplace safety consequences for active and retired West Virginia miners stemming from Trump administration cuts to federal agencies that regulate and adjudicate miner safety and health matters: https://t.co/6tm26UrqUd

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How Gov. Morrisey embraced climate change denialists at a Washington, D.C. conference at which climate action was likened to Nazism, and how West Virginia environmentalists are fighting to preserve human health protection cast aside by the EPA: https://t.co/HwlyoC9S5q

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Appreciate this continuing coverage by @Mike__Tony

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Months of secret meetings between Google affiliate representatives and Morrisey administration officials and DEP permit oversight gaps for a Microsoft-linked operation show limits on transparency and environmental protection with planned WV data centers: https://t.co/JWo2od1jSQ

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Following a Nitro chemical site emergency that left two people dead and an estimated 30+ more seeking medical care, the Trump administration aims to eliminate chemical safety and reporting requirements that loom large in the disaster-prone Kanawha Valley: https://t.co/inhESAXZ6B

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I appreciate this continuing coverage by @Mike__Tony

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"Going without that medicine is frightening to me." Retired miners and their dependents say Sen. Justice's coal companies are allowing lapses in vital, contractually promised prescription drug coverage as other legal liabilities mount for the senator: https://t.co/iXbgRQsmdj

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As water provider takeovers loom, drinking water quality struggles are intensifying for West Virginians long suffering from supply that discolors, stains and alienates instead of nourishing: https://t.co/jOtAOuVEcE

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An Omni Hotels & Resorts affiliate has moved in federal court to take over Sen. Justice's Greenbrier business empire, citing what it called a Justice family track record of "waste, fraud and abuse" in seeking receivership for the resort and related firms: https://t.co/2QYK7Z4HAy

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Sen. Justice's debt-riddled business empire has been accused in federal court of hiding nearly $500 million in assets by two companies that have been looking to collect from them per an eight-figure court judgment for years: https://t.co/RVfCx9AqaM

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Sen. Justice coal company retirees and their dependents say Justice's business empire is allowing new lapses in promised prescription drug coverage, again threatening their health and causing them to have to pay out of pocket for vital medication: https://t.co/hLMpGgfBZJ

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How West Virginia's gas industry-backed House speaker is profiting from dual roles greasing the state's gas-fired data center momentum - and fighting community advocates seeking protection from developer plans for heavy pollution near their homes: https://t.co/1NeJH3XWPl

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Details are few and community advocate concerns are many on Google's Putnam County data center operation plans, as the Morrisey administration persists in shielding basic information about data center projects it has approved to bypass local regulation: https://t.co/MqJebqzGL3

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The prolific @Mike__Tony wrote about another interesting case last year:

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Costs to West Virginia ratepayers from a controversial $1.16 billion regional power transmission line planned to cross through the state are becoming clearer — and higher.

Energy and environment reporter @Mike__Tony has more⬇️
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"Lawmakers clearly aren't listening to their constituents." How West Virginia's legislative session favored data center developers and mining operators over local input and why conflict-of-interest concern looms in community advocates' data center fight: https://t.co/7p4f1xJFjA

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Region-focused studies published in recent weeks indicate increased public health costs to come from a string of bills West Virginia lawmakers have approved in the final days of the state’s 2026 regular legislative session: https://t.co/vQIdSm7RzX

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In a span of less than half an hour Thursday, the West Virginia House of Delegates made three moves undermining the state’s already poor drinking water quality.

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