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Flipping eyesores into assets: WVU brownfields team earns $1 million from EPA to revamp blighted sites

Tracy Novak | Monday, May 03, 2021

The Brownfields Assistance Center at WVU has received $1 million from the Environmental Protection Agency to provide expertise to communities on brownfields sites. A brownfield is property, such as the former Barboursville Brickyard (pictured), that is hi

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From pollutant to resource: WVU scientists push rare earth element technologies closer to production

Tracy Novak | Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Paul Ziemkiewicz, director of the West Virginia Water Research Institute, is leading an effort to explore a nationwide supply chain, based on acid mine drainage treatment, that would produce at least 400 tons of rare earth elements and critical materials

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Carrie Staton offers advice on dilapidated buildings

Tracy Novak | Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Carrie Staton is director of West Virginia University BAD — Brownfield, Abandoned, Dilapidated — Buildings in the Northern West Virginia Brownfields Assistance Center, which provides technical help to abandoned and dilapidated buildings programs in West V

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WVU energy expert to speak before Senate committee hearing on electricity, climate change and economic growth

Tracy Novak | Tuesday, March 09, 2021

James Wood, director of the Energy Institute at West Virginia University.

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Preston County water conditions return to normal after heavy rain, mine discharge, WVU researchers conclude

Tracy Novak | Tuesday, March 09, 2021

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Tracy Novak | Thursday, December 17, 2020

Picture of Monongahela River near Morgantown, West Virginia

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West Virginia University researchers collaborate on energy policy study

Tracy Novak | Thursday, December 17, 2020

Univeristy of Wyoming and West Virginia University logos

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Ziemkiewicz speaks on WVU rare earth elements research during Dept. of Energy webinar

Tracy Novak | Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Paul Ziemkiewicz, director of the West Virginia Water Research Institute at WVU and the principal investigator of the rare-earth research project

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Alternative fuels webinar highlights NASCAR performance trends and Tesla START program

Tracy Novak | Thursday, July 16, 2020

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Wood named director of WVU Energy Institute

Tracy Novak | Thursday, July 02, 2020

James Wood, director of the WVU Energy Institute

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