The Legislative Gazette (NY) - Researchers from states that are experienced with hydraulic fracturing released a collaborative report on how gas drilling has affected four counties in the United States and made recommendations to states considering allowing fracking within their borders. Read Authors of the report found the counties highlighted in the report were not…
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The State Journal - Wetzel County has always been a producer of natural gas, but a boom in the Marcellus Shale gas drilling really put it on the map for the Mountain State. Read Since 2008, the county at the base of the Northern Panhandle saw an increase in drilling by 6,000 percent. A recent…
Wheeling Intelligencer - The impact of the natural gas boom in Wetzel County - both good and bad - pales in comparison to other Tri-State area counties also experiencing a surge in drilling activity, according to a report released Thursday by the Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative. Read The report includes case studies from Wetzel County…
Charleston Gazette, The Republic, WOUB Public Media, Huntington Herald-Dispatch - Lack of information about economic development subsidies hurt West Virginia's score in the 2014 edition of the U.S. Public Interest Group's annual report on transparency in government spending in the 50 states. Read For a second year in a row, West Virginia on Tuesday received…
Bloomberg BusinessWeek - Natalie Tennant, the presumptive Democratic nominee for West Virginia's open U.S. Senate seat, got an earful visiting a company where workers said President Barack Obama's environmental policies threaten their jobs. Read "I'll fight it," Tennant said of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule affecting coal-fired power plants during a campaign stop at…
The New Yorker - On the morning of Thursday, January 9, 2014, the people of Charleston, West Virginia, awoke to a strange tang in the air off the Elk River. It smelled like licorice. The occasional odor is part of life in Charleston, the state capital, which lies in an industrial area that takes flinty…
Charleston Gazette - In the weeks leading up to the enrollment deadline, more West Virginians signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act than in previous months, according to Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, the state's only insurer participating in the exchange. Read As of the March 31 deadline, 20,131 people had enrolled…
Charleston Daily Mail - Now that Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has signed legislation increasing the state's minimum wage, focus turns to a change in the federal standard. Read Groups including the West Virginia chapter of the AFL-CIO and West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, as well as local employees and business owners, rallied Wednesday…
Charleston Gazette - A bus traveling through 11 states on its "Give America a Raise" tour to advocate for an increased federal minimum wage stopped in front of the state Capitol along the Kanawha River on Wednesday afternoon. Read Urging Congress to increase the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.10 an hour, slogans…
Charleston Gazette - Meanwhile, Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, takes the time to read the fine print in the budget bill. Read Boettner found at least 12 other accounts where the Legislature's appropriations were larger than Tomblin's proposed budget, but were not rolled back by the governor…