WV MetroNews - Eighteen state attorneys general and the U.S. Department of Justice have filed their opening briefs in the legal challenge to former President Barack Obama’s health care law with the U.S. Supreme Court. Read full article here. The briefs filed Thursday argue the law is no longer constitutional because Congress zeroed out the individual mandate penalty for…
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph - Dear Governor Justice, Food for All is a broad and diverse coalition of individuals and organizations across West Virginia who believe no West Virginian should ever go without access to adequate, nutritious food. Read full letter here. The Food for All coalition has dedicated itself to improving food security outcomes for…
Martins Ferry Times Leader, Steubenville Herald-Star, Washington County Observer-Reporter, Wheeling Intelligencer, Weirton Daily Times- The prospect of a petrochemical buildout in the Ohio River Valley was already a divisive issue. It was ballyhooed by some as an economic generator and decried by others for greenhouse gas emissions. Read article. That scenario became a bit more…
Beaver County Times- Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia may never see the petrochemical buildout many once expected, a group of regional economists say. Read article. In a letter Monday, eight academic leaders representing seven area universities, as well as a former Pennsylvania Environmental Protection secretary told Gov. Tom Wolf, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and West…
ABC27.com, WTRF.com - Regional economists are warning tri-state governors that the petrochemical boom is a ‘non-starter’… meaning the Ethane Cracker Plant potentially making its way to Dilles Bottom could be a giant leap in the wrong direction. Read article. Citing a years-long trend of declining profit margins of the Beaver County plant, a group of faculty…
WTOV9.com - A letter was sent to governors in the tri-state area regarding the future of the petrochemical industry. Read article. It referenced the proposed multi-billion-dollar petrochemical plant in Dilles Bottom. A group of economists and engineers believe the proposed cracker plant project is unlikely to happen as demand is down, while the company is…
The Columbus Dispatch, MSN.com, Akron Beacon Journal, Cleveland.com - Experts caution Ohio saying a proposed multi-billion dollar petrochemical plant may be a non-starter due to market conditions. Read article. With the price of plastic plummeting and a global oversaturation of ethane-ethylene cracker plants and plastics manufacturing, experts are cautioning Ohio about moving forward with an…
The Business Journal, Energy News Network - A group of economists and engineers from seven universities in Ohio and Pennsylvania, including John Russo, have published a letter sent to the governors of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia warning that the projected impact of the petrochemical industry won’t be as great as initially thought. Read article.…
West Virginia Metro News - West Virginia is under way with the coronavirus testing of inmates and staff across the corrections system. Read article. Gov. Jim Justice promised comprehensive testing in the corrections system last week after an outbreak was identified at the Huttonsville Correctional Center in Randolph County. One hundred nineteen cases have been…
West Virginia Metro News - Gov. Jim Justice has pledged to test inmates and staff across West Virginia’s corrections system after confirmation of at least 83 cases of coronavirus at the prison in Huttonsville. Read article. “As we continue to expand our testing capability, we should test every single inmate and every single staff person…