By Jeff Jenkins in News | December 27, 2016 at 12:59PM CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A successful Harrison County businessman will be Governor-elect Jim Justice’s secretary of commerce. WVU Alumni Association Woody Thrasher will be state commerce secretary in the Justice Administration. Justice announced Tuesday that he has chosen Woody Thrasher, president of The Thrasher Group. ...

Dan McGinn: One way to measure Trump is what he does for WV By Dan McGinn December 25, 2016 In the aftermath of the Donald Trump election victory, interest in West Virginia among national political figures and the media is the greatest it has been since John F. Kennedy’s discovery of poverty in the Mountain ...

By Brad McElhinny in News | December 22, 2016 at 8:48AM CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Randy Huffman is leaving his position. DEP Secretary Randy Huffman Huffman, who has been cabinet secretary of DEP since May 2008, has decided to take a position with the Air National Guard. Huffman has been in the ...

Consol Energy’s transformation to natural gas is part of a broader shift in Appalachia   By Ryan Dezember, On the campaign trail Donald Trump promised “coal is coming back,” and the president-elect vowed to roll back environmental regulations he blames for hamstringing miners. But the experience of Consol Energy Inc. suggests some businesses have already ...

Whether heating your home, fueling your car, providing jobs or creating so many of the items we use daily, oil and natural gas play an integral role in all of our lives. These resources make our world turn, and West Virginia sits at the epicenter of the shale revolution. It’s for these reasons I applied ...

HUNTINGTON - The critical connection between energy, health care and infrastructure was the subject of the 12th annual Energy & Natural Resources Symposium in Huntington on Monday. "The focus really looks at energy and energy companies and how they play a role in the community," said Kevin Craig, executive vice president of coal for Natural ...

By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia lawmakers who received nominations for leadership positions in the House and Senate agreed during the opening of the legislative interims on Sunday that the budget should be the top priority in the upcoming session. Lawmakers met in Charleston Sunday, the first day of interims, to ...

Governor-elect Jim Justice has chosen former West Virginia Democratic Party chair and congressional candidate Nick Casey as his chief of staff, Justice announced Monday. “Nick Casey is as genuine as they come, and will be a tremendous asset to my administration and the people of West Virginia,” Justice said in a news release. “He has ...

By Randy Hildreth Mountain States Director LINK There is no evidence that fracking contaminated groundwater in Pavillion, Wyo., according to a landmark report released today by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WDEQ). From the DEQ fact sheet: “Evidence does not indicate that hydraulic fracturing fluids have risen to shallow depths utilized by water-supply wells. ...

The Independent Oil and Gas Association of West Virginia (IOGAWV) has overwhelmingly endorsed the candidacy of Attorney General Patrick Morrisey for re-election.  Scott Freshwater, president of the organization said that the active role Attorney General Morrisey has taken in behalf of the natural gas industry to ward off excessive, unnecessary and costly regulations has been ...