W.Va. Book Festival Announces Featured Authors For 2024
West Virginia’s annual book festival celebrating national and regional authors will come to the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center this October.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsTwo former employees at Freedom Industries have pleaded guilty to a pollution charge in last year’s chemical spill into a river in West Virginia.
Ex-plant manager Michael Burdette and environmental consultant Robert Reynolds entered the pleas to negligent discharge of a pollutant Wednesday during separate hearings in federal court in Charleston. They each face up to a year in prison when they are sentenced June 24.
The January 2014 spill of a coal-cleaning agent into the Elk River contaminated drinking water for 300,000 residents for days.
Ex-owners Charles Herzing and William Tis pleaded guilty Monday to causing an unlawful discharge into the river.
Ex-Freedom owner Dennis Farrell and former President Gary Southern face trial later this year in the spill. Southern also faces charges related to Freedom’s bankruptcy.