WHEELING, W.Va. — West Virginia leaders who may be considering a “just say no” approach to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan may risk putting responsibility for complying with the rule squarely on power plant operators, an environmental regulatory expert told a gathering of natural gas industry professionals[Read More…]
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Don’t drive drillers away
An editorial from The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. –Take a look at a map showing the Marcellus Shale and other geologic formations holding enormous quantities of natural gas. Then look at maps of other gas-bearing strata. West Virginia is far from the only energy game in town. The Marcellus alone[Read More…]
W.Va. business index continues downward trend
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — The Mountain State Business Index, a metric designed to measure the West Virginia economy’s health in the short term, ticked down 0.1 percent in September, continuing the worst stretch for the index in six years. The index, a composite of seven key indicators used to measure the[Read More…]
Prevailing wage rates to be unveiled Wednesday
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After months of controversy, heated debate and even a subpoena, the state’s new prevailing wage rates will be unveiled by WorkForce West Virginia today. The agency will file the new wage rates for workers on major state-funded construction projects with the Secretary of State’s office at 10[Read More…]
Rahall, WVU to celebrate archives on Saturday
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Hold public office for 38 years and you will accumulate a fair amount of papers worth keeping. Papers stacked to a length of about seven football fields. That’s the size of Nick Rahall’s congressional archive: 2,000 boxes of speeches, testimony, documents, records, letters and reports, that the[Read More…]
Online review period of Common Core ending
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Wednesday is the last day to share your views on West Virginia’s Common Core-based learning requirements through the state’s standards review website, which already has received more than 240,000 comments from more than 4,000 people. People may comment until midnight at wvacademicspot light.statestandards.org, where they can read[Read More…]
VW controversy puts WVU researchers in spotlight
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — It didn’t take long for Arvind Thiruvengadam Padmavathy and other researchers from West Virginia University’s Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions, who were testing vehicles on a West Coast highway, to realize that something was amiss. As they drove around the Los Angeles freeways and up[Read More…]
Regressive local taxes carry long-term risks
A Daily Mail editorial from the Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — People who work in Charleston might be grumbling about upcoming increases in the city’s user fee, but their neighbors in Huntington will soon see an even bigger hike. Huntington’s weekly user fee is set to rise significantly, from $3 to[Read More…]
The Associated Press shares 10 things to know Wednesday, Sept. 30
Dorothy Abernathy, regional media director of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers: 1. WHY THE U.S. MILITARY FAVORS KEEPING AMERICAN TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN PAST 2016 Officials[Read More…]
WVPA Special Report: U.S. Chamber executive sees energy sector as industry with solutions
By GEORGE HOHMANN For the West Virginia Press Association WHEELING, W.Va — The energy sector needs to rebrand itself as the industry with solutions, a United States Chamber of Commerce executive told oil and gas executives Tuesday. “Energy is the solution to economic problems; to our geopolitical challenges; to competitiveness,” said Karen Harbert, president[Read More…]
