Aboveground Storage Tank Federal Requirements Whether you are considering purchasing a property that will come with an aboveground storage tank or you are thinking about buying an AST for your [...] April 29, 2016 Blog
West Virginia Legislature Amends Storage Tank Regulations The West Virginia legislature recently passed a bill that will significantly roll back regulation enacted by the Aboveground Storage Tank Act, which [...] March 31, 2015 Blog
Update on West Virginia Storage Tank Law Over the past few weeks, there have been a number of new developments concerning West Virginia’s Aboveground Storage Tank Act. The act was passed [...] February 26, 2015 Legislation
More Than 1,000 Storage Tanks Unfit for Service in West Virginia West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection reports that more than 1,000 aboveground storage tanks in the state have been found “not [...] January 23, 2015 Blog
Registration for Storage Tanks Extended in West Virginia Though the official deadline for registration of aboveground storage tanks in West Virginia has passed, the state’s Department of Environmental [...] October 27, 2014 Blog
Interpretive Rule Eases Some Requirements in New Storage Tank Law In response to numerous concerns from owners and operators of aboveground storage tanks throughout West Virginia, the state’s Department of [...] September 18, 2014 Blog
Federal Tank Cleanup Fund May Be Raided for Highways The Federal Highway Trust Fund is running out of money, and if it doesn’t receive funding soon, the government will have no funds to use for the [...] July 21, 2014 Blog
West Virginia Storage Tank Registration Site Launches After a chemical spill from a storage tank in West Virginia, earlier this year dumped 7,500 gallons of MCHM into the Elk River in Charleston and left [...] June 13, 2014 Blog
Storage Tank Bill Made Law in West Virginia Earlier this year after a chemical spill released 7,500 gallons of the chemical MCHM into the Elk River in Charleston, West Virginia, more than [...] April 21, 2014 Blog
Chemical Spill Tanks Will Be Removed The aboveground storage tanks at the Freedom Industries chemical storage facility on the Elk River are scheduled to be removed after a leak from one [...] February 5, 2014 Blog
What Caused the West Virginia Chemical Leak? As we discussed in our blog last week, a storage tank at the Freedom Industries facility in Charleston, West Virginia dumped 7,500 gallons of a [...] January 28, 2014 Blog
West Virginia Spill Highlights Importance of Tank Safety More than 300,000 West Virginia residents are still without tap water after a chemical spill from the Freedom Industries facility in Charleston [...] January 13, 2014 Blog