Tumult Continues Over DEP Stream List

The Charleston Gazette covered a Monday public hearing for the Manchin administration's proposed list of streams protected under "Virginia’s federally required stream anti-degradation policy."

"Under orders from Manchin, DEP Secretary Stephanie Timmermeyer last month cut the number of streams on the agency’s preferred list from more than 300 to 157," the Gazette reports. "Streams on the list are clean, and the anti-degradation policy aims to keep them that way."

A majority of the speakers hailed from state Trout Unlimited chapters, environmental groups and the state Council of Churches, the paper found, "all lined up against the governor’s move to reduce the number of protected streams."