Associated Press: The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is seeking comment on its preliminary decision to issue an air pollution permit for a planned coal-to-gasoline plant in the southern coalfields. New York-based TransGas Development LLC announced in December it planned to build the plant in Mingo County near Wharncliffe. The facility is expected to turn 3 million tons of coal a year into methanol that would then be converted into as much as 756,000 gallons of gasoline a …