Charleston Gazette-Mail reporter Mike Tony is the recipient of a Federal Action, Local Impact Journalism Fellowship awarded by the National Press Foundation. 🎉Congratulations Mike Tony!🎉 Read more about this prestigious fellowship here: bit.ly/4pS7CF4

A gas and oil industry giant has renewed its pressure on West Virginia lawmakers to further roll back a law designed to protect the state’s most vulnerable waters from toxic chemical spills from aboveground storage tanks. Mike Tony reports⬇️ wvgazettemail.com/news/energy_an…

Local frustration is mounting with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and state officials poised to build momentum toward data center development causing deep water and energy concerns where it has come to fruition elsewhere: wvgazettemail.com/news/energy_an…

The Trump administration's cutoff of nearly $8 billion in energy funding in states Kamala Harris carried in the 2024 presidential election includes a $70 million project powered by West Virginia state-supported Weirton battery manufacturer Form Energy: wvgazettemail.com/news/energy_an…

Despite broad language in West Virginia legislative rule governing air quality permitting, the DEP claimed to have only narrow discretion in its new approval of permit requests for planned data center-linked sites: wvgazettemail.com/news/energy_an…

West Virginia's electric utilities have filed plans with state regulators outlining their projected energy futures amid the Mountain State's especially steep long-term power cost climb - and the companies are clinging to coal: wvgazettemail.com/news/energy_an…

Under Gov. Morrisey, the West Virginia National Guard remains activated for deployment in Washington despite D.C. leaders' objections, but has long since withdrawn from West Virginia communities still recovering from devastating floods: wvgazettemail.com/news/politics/…

Why first lady Denise Morrisey’s travel to and appearances at events in Washington have raised conflict-of-interest concern: wvgazettemail.com/news/politics/…

Why West Virginia’s new deal with the nation's largest gas and oil well owner disappoints well-plugging advocates, how risk of multigenerational taxpayer liability for the owner's wells persists and what else the state can do: wvgazettemail.com/news/energy_an…: wvgazettemail.com/news/energy_an…

A new federal court filing alleges in depth that West Virginia officials were misled into approving a $50 million loan and other support benefiting a Morgantown-based umbrella of companies that didn't have the resources or backing that its head claimed: wvgazettemail.com/news/legal_aff…

Residents throughout West Virginia are fighting momentum supported by Gov. Morrisey and the DEP toward data center development fueling fears of escalating energy costs and environmental health threats: wvgazettemail.com/news/energy_an…

Gov. Morrisey's office agreed to pay $1.9 million for consulting to develop West Virginia's application for federal rural health funding to McKinsey & Company, which Morrisey as attorney general accused of fueling the state's opioid crisis: wvgazettemail.com/news/health/wv…

WV officials courted a group of firms accused in a federal lawsuit of misleading them to get key funding for years, offering them millions in financial aid beyond a $50M forgivable loan they approved that supported it, per records obtained by the G-M: wvgazettemail.com/news/politics/…

I'm excited and honored to have Pulitzer Center support for this project focused on West Virginia's chronically pervasive drinking water quality struggles: wvgazettemail.com/news/gazette-m…

The saying holds that mountaineers are always free. But the West Virginians who come to Betty Stepp don’t feel free to trust their own water. Reporter Mike Tony has more⬇️ wvgazettemail.com/news/energy_an…

West Virginia has the nation's highest rate of public water system health-based drinking water violations. What's causing that problem, and why that rate only begins to size up the depth of West Virginia's drinking water quality crisis: wvgazettemail.com/news/energy_an…

Congratulations to one of our #EnergyJournalismFellows Mike Tony on the recognition of his series in the Charleston Gazette-Mail! We're proud to see his important reporting on energy, environment, and public health receive well-deserved attention. wvgazettemail.com/news/gazette-m…

West Virginia officials are taking public comments on a planned rule supporting a highly controversial law aimed at attracting data centers to the state at the expense of local government control and funding. Reporter Mike Tony has more⬇️ wvgazettemail.com/news/energy_an…

The MSHA decision not to use a seismograph has perplexed miner safety advocates who expected the agency would have given that option more consideration in its effort to rescue section foreman Steve Lipscomb, 42, of Elkview. Mike Tony reports⬇️ wvgazettemail.com/news/energy_an…

Amid growing evidence of toxic PFAS threats throughout West Virginia, required DEP PFAS action plans remain unwritten and a state legislative panel designated to oversee West Virginia water resources and receive PFAS updates has been shuttered: wvgazettemail.com/news/energy_an…