Mental Health Crisis Response And Mountain Valley Pipeline, Inside Appalachia

This week, people with mental health challenges or substance use disorder often end up in jail. But crisis response teams offer another way. Also, one year after the Mountain Valley Pipeline went into service, people who live directly in the pipeline’s path have received compensation. But not everyone. And, the Sacred Harp songbook gets an update for the first time since the early 1990s.

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Arts & Culture WVPB Staff, Apr. 17, 2025

Using Art To Communicate And Lead Pollution Exposure In Children, This West Virginia Morning

On this West Virginia Morning, an Eastern Panhandle artist communicates through her art, and how children get exposed to high levels of lead.

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Energy & Environment Curtis Tate, Oct. 08, 2024

State's Lead Pipes Getting Replaced With EPA Funds

Notably, the city of Clarksburg’s water board will begin a project next year to replace more than 4,000 lead service lines at no cost to residents.

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Energy & Environment Briana Heaney, Aug. 05, 2024

West Virginia American Water Wants To Know If Your Homes Pipes Have Lead

The company is asking customers to check their home’s water piping system for lead. Their website has information that customers can use to identify lead, which is a neurotoxin. Then customers are asked to log that information into an interactive map.

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Government WVPB Staff, Jan. 08, 2024

Helping Foster Kids Find Work, Housing After 18 On This West Virginia Morning

On this West Virginia Morning, foster kids often don't have anywhere to go when they turn 18, but a new program in Philippi, Barbour County is working to help provide housing and work for some of them.

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Energy & Environment Curtis Tate, Dec. 07, 2021

Mine Reclamation, Clean Water and Broadband: What the Infrastructure Law Brings to Appalachia

The bipartisan infrastructure bill that became law last month has billions of dollars in it for roads, bridges, airports and transit systems in the Ohio Valley. The law also addresses some of the region’s other pressing needs.

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Health & Science June Leffler, Aug. 27, 2021

Toxic At Every Level: Lead Pipes Burden Clarksburg, W.Va.

Millions of Americans get their water through lead service lines. The alarm sounded in Clarksburg when three children in town tested positive for elevated levels of lead in their blood.

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