MORGANTOWN — Permitting reform remains alive and well in the U.S. Senate, despite two previous failed bills. “Permitting reform is front and center on my agenda,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito told West Virginia reporters on Thursday afternoon. All kinds of projects — energy, water, ...
MORGANTOWN – Sen. Joe Manchin spoke with members of the West Virginia press on Wednesday, covering a wide variety of topics. Among them was the omnibus funding bill expected to pass the Senate Wednesday evening, and he focused on some of the earmarks for West Virginia included in the ...
MORGANTOWN — Sen. Joe Manchin is disappointed that his effort to pass permitting reform legislation again failed in the Senate. Manchin had hoped to attach his permitting reform legislation as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act early Thursday evening, but the move ...
MORGANTOWN – Bridges, defense spending, permitting reform and the southern border were among the topics of Sen. Shelley Moore Capito's Thursday conversation with West Virginia reporters. Bridges came up as a question following Gov. Jim Justice's Wednesday announcement that the ...
On Dec. 8, a section of the Keystone Pipeline passing through Kansas ruptured, spilling 14,000 barrels (about 588,000 gallons) of crude oil across farmland and into a creek. Just a couple days later, Sen. Joe Manchin was throwing a fit because his “Building American Energy Security Act ...
‘Permitting reform’ more harmful than not Hoppy Kercheval’s column (“Manchin’s Miscalculation,” Sept. 30) repeats claims from Sens. Manchin and Capito, who relied on industry propaganda calling for “permitting reform” and weakening the National Environmental Policy Act ...