radioNOVO News for Parkersburg, WV 06-26-26

Good morning.The federal government has reached a massive four-hundred-and-fifty-million-dollar settlement with chemical maker Chemours over the illegal discharge of synthetic "forever chemicals." Filed in West Virginia court, the agreement requires the company to pay a civil penalty and fund clean drinking water infrastructure surrounding its Washington Works plant.In education news, West Virginia Board of Education President Paul Hardesty is warning of a looming financial disaster unless lawmakers modernize the school funding formula. New data reveals the state has lost five thousand students over the past school year, pushing multiple districts toward insolvency.And a federal judge has officially blocked West Virginia’s new welfare restriction on sugary drinks. The court ruled that the U-S Department of Agriculture exceeded its authority when it granted Governor Patrick Morrisey’s waiver to ban SNAP recipients from buying soda, putting the initiative on pause.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.