by Laurence Hammack | Apr 16, 2018 | Environment
Early on the morning of April 11, Mary Beth Coffey came home to the sound of chainsaws and large pine trees crashing to the ground. Coffey knew, as soon as she read an urgent text from a neighbor and left work in a rush, that it was the day she had been dreading —...
by Laurence Hammack | Feb 18, 2018 | Investigative reporting
A construction company hired to build the Mountain Valley Pipeline worked on three similar projects that were cited by environmental regulators, who found mountainsides turned to muddy slopes and streams clogged with sediment. The three developers of the natural gas...
by Laurence Hammack | Dec 6, 2017 | Environment
As she walked across a mountain meadow, Karen Scott passed a wooden stake driven into the moist soil to mark the route a natural gas pipeline will take if it slices through her family farm. Scott pointed to the nearby ridgetop of Poor Mountain, where springs fed by...
by Laurence Hammack | Oct 9, 2017 | Politics/government
BUCHANAN — At the historic Buchanan Theater, a Main Street icon in this small town, recent showings have featured a gun-slinging battle of good versus evil in “The Dark Tower, ” high-speed automotive action in “The Fate of the Furious, ” and the World War II story of...
by Laurence Hammack | Jul 4, 2017 | Environment
Every day, about 2,000 cars and trucks cross a deep gorge using a bridge that is more than a million years old. It’s not really a bridge, the Virginia Department of Transportation says of the Natural Bridge, a 215-foot-tall limestone arch carved by the forces of...