By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia environmental regulators have given their blessing for plans to move forward for a surface mine in Raleigh County that has renewed concerns about health and geological impacts from steep slope mining in the area. The state Department of Environmental Protection[Read More…]

By David Beard, The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., joined with four other leading GOP senators Thursday to unveil their trimmed-down counter proposal to President Biden’s $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan. The Republican Roadmap, a five-year plan, comes in at about a quarter of the price:[Read More…]

By Taylor Stuck, The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — While new research shows most Americans support cannabis legalization, the West Virginia Legislature defeated bills this year to improve the medical cannabis program. The West Virginia Senate passed two bills aimed at improving the program, which passed four years ago but has[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams, The Intelligencer WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and several Republican senators unveiled their own infrastructure plan in hopes of finding compromise with President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan. Capito, R-W.Va., the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public[Read More…]

By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Coal companies owned and operated by Gov. Jim Justice’s family are still failing to provide prescription drug coverage to retired miners, even after they reached an agreement to resolve a federal lawsuit to do so, according to the four retired miners and[Read More…]

By David Beard, The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Sen. Joe Manchin doesn’t favor passing the entire $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan proposed by President Biden, he told members of the West Virginia press Wednesday morning. Not all at once, anyway. He reminded all that there’s no actual bill yet to[Read More…]

By Charles Boothe, Bluefield Daily Telegraph WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Wednesday funding for King Coal Highway, the Coalfields Expressway and other vital road projects in the state will be part of a federal infrastructure package. “Those two highways are critically needed,” he said during a virtual[Read More…]

WV News MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A new study from West Virginia University suggests that rural e-cigarette users are older, and often get sicker, than their urban counterparts. Researchers with the WVU School of Medicine are investigating severe lung injuries occurring among e-cigarette users in rural Appalachia. Sunil Sharma, section chief[Read More…]

By David Kirk, Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Earth Day used to be fun. “Back then it was kind of fun. We had a parade downtown — it was a celebration, now it’s a catastrophe,” said Paul Edwards, an adjunct professor at Fairmont State University. Edwards, a retired professor[Read More…]