Reporting

Air pollution in the Twin Cities​

• Why we created a landfill guide for Bristol residents (Southerly Magazine)

• Air pollution from a Virginia landfill is making residents sick. Officials won’t call it an emergency. (Southerly Magazine)

• Tennessee lawmaker says Virginia needs to do more to fix Bristol landfill’s malodorous emissions (Virginia Mercury; republished in Tennessee Lookout)

• Bristol Herald Courier

  • Bristol Virginia manager to request $1 million more for landfill repairs as EPA wraps up air study

  • More air samples tie odors, chemicals to Bristol landfill gas leak 

  • BVU: Wastewater from landfill violating permit for benzene levels

  • Landfill consultant: 'I wish we could just turn a switch and make this go away'

  • As Bristol, Virginia plans more air samples, one couple contemplates moving

  • Amid ongoing pollution complaints, Bristol landfill cited for record-keeping violations

  • The Russell family: "We have to get away from the smell"

  • Interactive map: Bristol smell complaints

  • Fed up by stench, Bristol citizens are tracking it

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Other reporting

• Cardinal News

  • ​Caving team discovers, retrieves rare ice age-era cat skeleton from Southwest Virginia cave

  • Southwest Virginia's coal waste problem

  • Wise County graphene research company: “We’re ready to go commercial”

• Bristol Herald Courier

  • Hospital chaplain describes heartbreaking work of caring for COVID-19 patients

  • Virus could be killing Clinch River mussels

  • UVa-Wise team hunts for amphibians in SW Va.’s high-altitude wetlands

  • Bristol company fined $20,000 for air pollution, certification violations

  • Before trial, last drugmaker in Baby Doe suit offers $35 million to settle

  • Lawyers defending pharmaceutical company now defending themselves

  • Court orders pharma company and some of its lawyers to pay plaintiffs' attorney fees, take ethics course

  • Three deaths in 17 days: COVID-19’s heavy toll on one local family​

  • Sullivan County commissioner criticized after testing positive for virus after meeting

  • Young Life gathering generates COVID-19 cluster 

• Lynchburg News & Advance

  • The long shadow of war persists for many

  • Veteran finds peace after landing in Bedford