MORGANTOWN – A House oil and gas bill that has caused some concern in the environmental community met its apparent end it Senate Energy on Tuesday. HB 2598 intended to exclude from the Aboveground Storage Tank Act’s inspection requirements tanks having a capacity of 210 barrels (8,820 ...
Wednesday was cross-over day at the Legislature, where any bill that didn’t come out of its chamber of origin is now considered dead. Fortunately, some proposed legislation made it from one chamber to the other in time to escape a bureaucratic death. Unfortunately, some proposed ...
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates overwhelmingly approved on Wednesday a bill to exempt 800-plus oil and gas industry tanks from the 2014 Aboveground Storage Tank Act and a bill to create liability protections for employers and others in COVID-19 related lawsuits. HB 2598 is the ...
MORGANTOWN – Every legislative session there are one or two prominent bills that pit the interests of industry against the environmental community. HB 2598 is one of those. It was before the House Energy and Manufacturing Committee Tuesday. It seeks to once again modify the 2014 ...