Environmental Quality Board
Environmental Quality Board
Environmental Quality Board

Board Members

​​The West Virginia Environmental Quality Board is composed of five members who are appointed by the Governor for five-year terms. Members must be "persons who by reason of previous training and experience are knowledgeable in the husbandry of the state's water resources and with at least one member with experience in industrial pollution control."


Edward M. Snyder, Ph.D., Chair
(Democrat - Jefferson County, Shepherdstown, WV)
Appointed: June 30, 1989​


Charles C. Somerville, Ph.D., Vice-Chair
(Independent - Cabell County, Huntington, WV)
Appointed: Nov. 18, 2011


B. Mitchel Blake, Jr., Ph.D., Member
(Democrat - Monongalia County, Morgantown , WV)
Appointed: June 15, 2023


Marybeth Winters, Member
(Republican - Raleigh County, Beckley, WV)
Appointed: April 30, 2018


Stephen G. Capelli, Sr., Member
(Republican - Randolph County, Elkins, WV)
​Appointed: February 15, 2019


0 Vacancies - Pending Appointment​​​