By MetroNews Staff in News | February 06, 2017 at 12:21PM CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Lobbyists for West Virginia’s gas industry will not be making another run at forced pooling or lease integration legislation during the upcoming legislative session, according to the executive director of the West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association. Instead, Anne Blankenship ...

By Brad McElhinny in | January 31, 2017 at 11:06AM CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Governor Jim Justice’s administration says its new environmental advocate will be Edward Maguire II, president and owner of The Highlands Group, Inc., a land broker and consulting company that specializes in the conservation of undeveloped properties in West Virginia. He begins work on Feb. 1. ...

By Brad McElhinny in News | January 31, 2017 at 9:54AM CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice is considering a wave of cuts when he presents his first state budget, and the chairmen of the finance committees in the Senate and House are glad the new governor is making the case for cuts up front. ...

By Carrie Hodousek in News | January 30, 2017 at 4:01PM CHARLESTON, W.Va. — New West Virginia Revenue Secretary Dave Hardy says it will take a team effort to fix the state’s budget problems. In a video, released Monday afternoon on the @WVGovernor Twitter handle, Hardy explained the state’s current financial crisis. Twitter State Revenue ...

By Shauna Johnson in News | January 30, 2017 at 11:33AM CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Governor Jim Justice could propose state budget cuts of more than $390 million and possibly as much as $606 million to the West Virginia Legislature at the start of the 2017 Regular Legislative Session next week. “Things are indeed worse than ...

By Andrea Lannom Register-Herald Reporter   With the state's budget deficit expected to reach more than $700 million in the 2019 fiscal year, Gov. Jim Justice said Wednesday he hopes to find a way to staunch the bleeding — but said it will take time. Justice spoke to lawmakers and business owners at the Beckley-Raleigh ...

Casey Junkins Business/Energy Writer cjunkins@theintelligencer.net WHEELING — Federal officials believe natural gas prices will climb for the next two years, which alarms those concerned with how Marcellus and Utica shale drilling impacts the environment — especially if President Donald Trump scraps President Barack Obama’s planned 45 percent cut for methane emissions. According to U.S. Energy ...

By Daniel Tyson REGISTER-HERALD REPORTER   Jan 21, 2017Seven paragraphs outlined the plan, called the America First Energy Plan, and which the new president said would invigorate the economy while ensuring security by creating thousands of jobs and making the U.S. less dependent on foreign energy sources."President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary ...

By Talkline host Hoppy Kercheval Candidate Donald Trump pledged to put coal miners back to work. It was a bold promise since there are multiple factors that have contributed to the rapid decline of the coal industry. However, Trump wasted little time once he took office outlining his plans for energy. As Trump was taking ...