Curtis Tate
Ohio Valley ReSource Environment reporterCurtis Tate is the Ohio Valley ReSource environment reporter. He has spent more than 17 years as a reporter and copy editor for Gannett, Dow Jones and McClatchy. He has written extensively about travel, transportation and Congress for USA TODAY, The Bergen Record, The Lexington Herald-Leader, The Wichita Eagle, The Belleville News-Democrat and The Sacramento Bee. His work has won awards from the National Press Foundation and the New Jersey Press Association. Curtis is a Kentucky native and a graduate of the University of Kentucky.
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A federal limit on silica dust to protect miners from black lung is likely to be delayed in court again. -
U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin told Chemours to comply with federal limits on the discharge of PFAS, or forever chemicals, from its Washington Works plant.
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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s mobile black lung clinic sat for weeks behind the NIOSH office in Morgantown. -
Pipeline owner EQT told investors in a presentation this week that it wants to increase the pressure in the line to accommodate another 500 million cubic feet a day, a 25% boost. -
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A judge in Frankfort on Tuesday ordered Justice to pay a nearly $3 million penalty, plus interest, over mine reclamation work at three sites in eastern Kentucky that was not completed before deadline. -
Mountaineer has been generating electric power since Jimmy Carter was president.But due to changing environmental regulations and the competition from natural gas and renewable energy, time could be running out.
