MORGANTOWN – The Senate version of the bill to enable beneficial extraction of rare earth elements and critical mineral from mine runoff took its first step on Monday, winning approval of the Natural Resources Committee. SB 458 as introduced was identical to HB 4003, approved by House ...
MORGANTOWN – Legislators moved several energy-related bills on Thursday, dealing with fossil fuels and rare earth elements. The Senate approved SB 262. It allows the state treasurer to put financial institutions that openly boycott fossil energy companies on a publicly available ...
MORGANTOWN – Legislators passed bills on Wednesday to lower patient copays for insulin and devices to treat diabetes, to establish a Parkinson's disease registry to enhance research at WVU, and to create a mining mutual insurance company to aid the coal industry and protect state ...
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia's legislative leaders described their goals for the 2022 session – which starts Jan. 12 – during Friday's West Virginia Press Association Legislative Lookahead. With the pandemic and with most of the state covered in fresh snow, it was a Zoom conference ...
There used to be an expression heard in San Giovanni in Fiore, and the other little Calabrase mountain towns near the arch of the boot in southern Italy that have West Virginia coal-mining connections. People would say it when they were on their way to an errand, or work, or just an outing ...
Aug. 25, 1921, was the beginning of the end of West Virginia’s lost chapter. While the memory of company stores and scrip live on, the nearly decade-long rebellion against deplorable working conditions and coal barons’ greed has largely been forgotten. West Virginia’s coal mine ...