MORGANTOWN – The state Senate passed a handful of bills on Tuesday, including two House bills aimed at promoting economic development. HB 4084 allows allow advanced recycling […]
Tag: fossil fuels
Bill to put banks that boycott fossil fuel companies on state treasurer’s restricted list takes another step forward in House Banking
MORGANTOWN — The bill to allow the state treasurer to put financial institutions that openly boycott fossil energy companies on a publicly available Restricted Financial Institution List […]
Senate passes fossil fuel boycott bill; House panel OKs two bills to promote rare earth element extraction from mine water
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 […]
Guest essay: COP26 or ‘cop-out’: A cry for local action
by Alan D. Bristow The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, was supposed to be the time when countries offered real solutions to […]
Guest essay: Coal still important globally
by Syd S. Peng Much of the world is now in the grips of an energy crisis. Economies coming back to life following the shock of the […]
COP26 failed: What needs to happen
by Peter Kalmus The one thing the climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, made clear is that human society remains in business-as-usual mode, with no meaningful curb on […]
A dangerous fallacy: ‘If they’re polluting, why shouldn’t we?’
It’s an old fallacious argument — a variation of the bandwagon fallacy (“everyone else is doing it”) that goes like this: Everyone else is misbehaving, so why […]
Manchin is holding Congress hostage, but the ransom won’t help W.Va.
No single senator should have the power to hold Congress hostage. We said the same thing when Sen. Mitch McConnell was Senate majority leader and could kill […]
Guest essay: Now is Manchin’s moment to protect W.Va. energy and plastics
by Delegate Mark Zatezalo Since the first day of the 117th Congress, the state of West Virginia has enjoyed an exceptionally large role in our nation’s political […]
Green advocates rally outside Sen. Capito’s office to urge her support for $3.5T social infrastructure bill
MORGANTOWN – Twelve adults and three children assembled in front of Sen. Shelley Moore Capito’s waterfront office building late Thursday afternoon to urge her to support the […]