Cuts At NIOSH Morgantown And Revitalizing A Coal-Fired Power Plant Site, This West Virginia Morning

On this West Virginia Morning, two weeks ago, almost all the workers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health offices in Morgantown woke up to notifications that they were out of a job. The cuts are part of a sweeping reduction in force at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as well as across the federal government in general. Reporter Chris Schulz sat down with one of the affected workers, Kyle Mandler, to talk about the cuts.

And from Pittsburgh-based The Allegheny Front, the site of a recently demolished coal-fired power plant in western Pennsylvania is being redeveloped. Its owners say they will spend $10 billion dollars to build a gas-fired power plant and data center on the Indiana County site.

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Maria Young produced this episode.

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