The complexities and implications of the chemical spill into West Virginia‘s Elk River keep growing, according to a new study. The lack of data motivated researchers to take on essential odor ...

The Elk River rises in the broad valleys of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, over the mountains from Virginia’s Piedmont horse country, then spills into the narrow hollows of the counties of ...

In early January, West Virginia's Elk River was contaminated by a chemical spill near Charleston. NPR's Noah Adams returns to the Elk nearly two months later to follow the course of the river.

Neil Berch, a political science professor at West Virginia University, agrees state officials made a conscious effort not to associate the Elk River spill with the coal industry as a whole.

*The Elk River starts in the high mountains of Pocahontas county, around 4,000 feet above sea-level, and meanders west to Charleston *The Elk River falls about 3,400 feet in elevation along it's path ...

This became glaringly obvious when, on Jan. 9, a clear, licorice-smelling chemical leaked from an old storage tank into the Elk River in West Virginia, contaminating the drinking water for much of ...

In southern West Virginia, ... Also in southern West Virginia, the agency has plans for five new access points on the Elk River between Clendenin and Coonskin Park in Kanawha County. .

Magnolia 20 at River, Oh. Pilots 48 ; Cameron 46 at St. Marys 21 ... — West Virginia’s elk herd stands at around 100 to 110 animals in the coalfields of southern West Virginia.

DUCK, W.Va. (WCHS) — UPDATED, 4:50 p.m. 12/31/22 West Virginia State Police are investigating the deaths of two men who plunged into the Elk River Friday evening near the border of Clay and ...

In the more than two months since the Jan. 9 chemical spill into West Virginia's Elk River, new findings reveal the nature of the chemicals that were released into the water and then into the air ...