Marion County News

Back in February First Energy Corporation and their subsidiary Mon Power announced that three power plants in West Virginia would close by this September.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is closing up its final Disaster Recovery Center in West Virginia at the end of the week.

FAIRMONT, W.Va. -- A New York company wants to retrofit the old coal-fired Rivesville Power Station to run on synthetic gas and build a Fairmont plant to produce synthetic diesel from trash.

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Marion County Sheriff Joe Carpenter is defending a recent decision to let his deputies escort big gas industry vehicles through Fairmont.