MORGANTOWN – Severance tax collections from natural gas outpaced coal for the first three quarters of Fiscal Year 2022, and a group of state legislators had the opportunity to visit a well pad on Tuesday and see a drilling operation first hand. Legislators were in town for May interim ...
MORGANTOWN — Legislators resumed their wrestling match with the problem of locality pay for state employees Tuesday morning. The Joint Standing Committee on Finance took up the topic on the third and final day of interim meetings held at WVU. John Deskins, director of WVU's Bureau of ...
MORGANTOWN – Legislators enjoyed a tour of WVU's new shining jewel Monday afternoon: Reynolds Hall. Built on the site of the old Stansbury Hall, it will be the new home of the John Chambers College of Business and Economics when it opens later this year. Legislators were in town for May ...
MORGANTOWN — Legislators took a dive Monday morning into a different realm of green energy: battery storage. This isn't batteries for your Chevy Volt. It's grid-level storage that can support not only the obvious wind and solar, but coal- and gas-fired generation, too. Members of the ...
MORGANTOWN – Forest Weyen, executive director of Monongalia County EMS, gave legislators a look at the plight of EMS systems locally and across the state. “It's become a crisis around the state,” he told members of the Joint Committee on Volunteer Fire Departments and Emergency ...
MORGANTOWN – In March, the Legislature lifted the statewide ban on construction of nuclear power plants. On Sunday, legislators got a look at what they've opened the door for. Mike Valore, Westinghouse Nuclear senior director for Advanced Reactor Commercialization, explained the eVinci ...