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The long-awaited reveal has finally arrived.   U.S. Senator Shelly Moore Capito will help kick off the parade which you can see right here on WTRF-CBS starting at 6:30.  From the Senate to Santa’s sleigh Senator Capito will lead the parade in its festivities and take part in a night filled with dazzling lights and holiday cheer.  She says she’s excited to return to her roots and be the grand marshal in the long-standing Wheeling tradition.  “This parade is a tradition that has been going on for... Read More

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito is planning to roll back elements of the Democrats' climate law as chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee next year, eliminating "frivolous" spending while pushing to keep the parts that have created new clean energy jobs. In an interview with POLITICO, the West Virginia Republican laid out her priorities, including digging into a permitting rules overhaul and maintaining a focus on helping nuclear power grow — an area that's also drawn support from... Read More

The West Virginia Office of Miners Health Safety and Training is set to receive more than $500,000 from the federal government. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) will award the office a $524,103 grant to support programs that help reduce mining accidents, injuries and illnesses. The grant will support the delivery of federally mandated education and training for miners at surface, underground coal and metal/nonmetal mines and miners employed in shell... Read More

The West Virginia Office of Miners Health Safety and Training is set to receive a large grant from the federal government. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration awarded the office $524,103 to support programs that help reduce mining accidents, injuries and illnesses by supporting programs such as safety and health courses “For generations, West Virginia coal miners have helped keep the lights on in our state and across the entire nation,” Senator Capito said.... Read More

U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Todd Young (R-IN) joined 18 of their Republican colleagues in telling President Joe Biden that they will not support a treaty that proposes global lists to restrict the production or use of chemicals, plastics, or plastic products or that requires new domestic authority. The senators reached out to Biden just as talks at the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee entered their final phase last week. “The administration has changed the... Read More

The West Virginia Office of Miners Health Safety and Training is set to receive more than $500,000 from the federal government. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) will award the office a $524,103 grant to support programs that help reduce mining accidents, injuries and illnesses. The grant will support the delivery of federally mandated education and training for miners at surface, underground coal and metal/nonmetal mines and miners employed in shell... Read More

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., announced Tuesday grant funding from the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) for the West Virginia Office of Miners Health Safety and Training. This grant will support programs that help reduce mining accidents, injuries and illnesses by supporting programs such as safety and health courses. “For generations, West Virginia coal miners have helped keep the lights on in our state and across the entire nation,”... Read More

Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS), convened state and community leaders in Dunbar, W.Va. for a summit focused on combating the drug epidemic in West Virginia. This summit consisted of individual panels throughout the day, each focused on one of three main themes: research and prevention, recovery, and law enforcement. “The scourge of drugs,... Read More

President-Elect Donald Trump has announced more cabinet and administration appointments and two of them are viewed as good for West Virginia. Two things many in West Virginia are focused on are a shortage of broadband technology and an abundance of energy resources. West Virginia has among the worst broadband coverage in the nation and that affects things such as telehealth. FCC member Brendan Carr, who has visited West Virginia to address the issues, has now been nominated to be chairman of the... Read More

West Virginia officials have been pushing back against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants since the proposed set of rules were released in May 2023. West Virginia joined several legal actions against the EPA rules, including a multi-state coalition that urged the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene earlier this year. With a changing of the guard in Washington on the horizon, it remains to be see what will happen with a set of rules... Read More

Over the past few years, new developments into the nature of substance use and West Virginias’ ongoing opioid epidemic has prompted novel and proven effective ways on how we respond. More than ever before, it’s being recognized that response to the opioid crisis goes beyond just the need for law enforcement, but behavior and mental health experts and prevention and recovery specialists as well. U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito is among the leaders who have recognized the need for more... Read More

Experts on addiction and recovery met in Dunbar on Friday with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., for several panel discussions focusing on where West Virginia stands in the ongoing drug and overdose epidemic. In attendance at the summit were local and state lawmakers, representatives for nonprofit organizations working in recovery and addiction spheres, members of law enforcement and health officials, among others. Capito moderated three panels — one on recovery, another on research and... Read More

Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) is about to become the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. Senate, and she hopes to use that clout to tackle issues of interest to West Virginia. Senator Capito also becomes the state’s senior senator with the retirement of Senator Joe Manchin. Senator Capito will now chair the Republican Policy Committee, the fourth highest-ranking leader in the Senate. She will also be chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, which has influence on some energy... Read More

West Virginia will have a more powerful voice on infrastructure policy on Capitol Hill starting next year. U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito will become chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee in January. She’ll set the agenda on a number of issues, including a highway reauthorization that Congress must enact next year. Capito says her priorities include rural roads, deficient bridges and safety. She also wants to take unspent funds from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which... Read More

U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND), and U.S. Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) slammed a rule finalized on Nov. 12 by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that aims to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas facilities by taxing those that emit high levels of the toxic greenhouse gas. “I look forward to working with my colleagues and President Trump to repeal this misguided tax early in the next Congress,” Sen. Capito said on Tuesday.  Specifically, the EPA’s final... Read More

Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) is about to become the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. Senate, and she hopes to use that clout to tackle issues of interest to West Virginia. Senator Capito also becomes the state’s senior senator with the retirement of Senator Joe Manchin. Senator Capito will now chair the Republican Policy Committee, the fourth highest-ranking leader in the Senate. She will also be chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, which has influence on some energy... Read More

Immigration, taxes and the national debt are at the top of the agenda for Republicans in Congress, according to U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. Capito, who on Wednesday was elected to the No. 4 position on the GOP Senate leadership team, will play a sizable role in shaping the priorities of lawmakers as chair of the Senate GOP Policy Committee. “I will not just be at the leadership table, but I will be leading the Policy Committee, which is the one that really does the deep-dives on all... Read More

Recently, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee released the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final Waste Emissions Charge (WEC) regulation as part of the Methane Emissions Reduction Program (MERP) under the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act. “The Biden administration is continuing its anti-consumer agenda by implementing the natural gas tax enacted by Democrats in the Inflation... Read More

It was a big day for West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito after it was announced that she would be serving as the next chairwoman of the senate republican policy committee. This now makes her the 4th highest-ranking Republican in the U.S. Senate. She joins a long list of senators who will work alongside President-elect Donald Trump during his upcoming term in the White House. Capito wrote on social media that the GOP party now has the responsibility to promote and advance conservative and... Read More

Multiple political figures in the state including U.S. Senators Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito are asking the Biden Administration and FEMA to consider an appeal for a major disaster declaration from the storms that came from Hurricane Helene. Manchin and Capito, along with U.S. Representatives Carol Miller and Alex Mooney, sent a letter to Washington D.C. in regard to Governor Jim Justice’s previous requests for a disaster declaration. The request came in an effort to further aid those... Read More