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HOLDEN, W.Va. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore-Capito, (R -W.Va.), hosted a round table discussion Tuesday, with officials and business owners in Mingo County, at the Wood Products Industrial Park. At the meeting, Capito and local business leaders discussed economic development and improving broadband access in the region. The purpose of Capito’s visit was to listen to area business leaders issues and concerns on continuing to develop and grow in the southern West Virginia... Read More

CHARLESTON, WV - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) announced she will partner with Google to launch the Let’s Put West Virginia on the Map Program.Senator Capito and representatives from Google will host a free tech workshop for Charleston-area small businesses at the Clay Center Wednesday, September 2, to help business owners launch a website and become visible online.“By helping business owners reach more customers online, this workshop will empower West Virginia small... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) announced Friday that the Shepherdstown Volunteer Fire Department, Hooverston Heights Volunteer Fire Department, Cora Volunteer Fire Department and Verdunville Volunteer Fire Department will receive funding to enhance fire prevention and safety operations through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) and Fire Prevention and Safety (FP&S) Programs."My experience working with the volunteer rescue... Read More

Small businesses will get a little boost through the Let's Put West Virginia on the Map Program Sept. 2 at the Clay Center.Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. announced Aug. 19 she will be partnering with Google to host a free tech workshop for Charleston-area small businesses in order to help business owners launch their own website and become visible online. At the event, small business owners will participate in event activities, workshops and receive one-on-one counseling from Google... Read More

National media outlets have finally begun to pick up on what the federal government is doing to the Mountain State.In fact, the Wall Street Journal recently published a blog with the first sentence, "Poor West Virginia," in which it explained to its national audience that we are the only state in the country to have lost a statistically significant number of jobs during the past year.Between July 2014 and July 2015, West Virginia lost 19,100 jobs, according to the U.S. Labor Department. That is... Read More

National media outlets have finally begun to pick up on what the federal government is doing to the Mountain State. In fact, the Wall Street Journal recently published a blog with the first sentence, "Poor West Virginia," in which it explained to its national audience that we are the only state in the country to have lost a statistically significant number of jobs during the past year.Between July 2014 and July 2015, West Virginia lost 19,100 jobs, according to the U.S. Labor Department. That is... Read More

The Economic Development Administration has awarded five counties in central West Virginia with $70,000 in federal funds to assist in job creation.U.S. Senators Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito announced Tuesday afternoon that the Economic Development Administration will provide the funds to the Region 4 Planning and Development Council to invest in job creation and economic development in the region.Five counties are in that region: Fayette, Greenbrier, Nicholas, Pocahontas, and... Read More

While coal will almost certainly remain the favorite target of President Barack Obama, no one should be surprised by the administration’s announcement last week of a controversial plan to reduce methane emissions from the nation’s booming oil and natural gas industry.That’s right. Obama and his politically charged Environmental Protection Agency are now going after the oil and natural gas industry. The EPA maintains that methane, which is a key component of natural gas, is a... Read More

Imagine if you will if King Fahd of Saudi Arabia declared that the most oil-rich nation in the world would no longer supply its “black gold” to the world. Can you imagine the anarchy that would take place?In the United States, President Obama and the EPA have gone rogue on fossil fuels in an apparent attempt to eliminate all carbon-based fuels as an energy source in this nation.First, it was the “War on Coal.” Now, it’s the “not-so-surprise attack” on... Read More

Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) announced she will partner with Google to launch the Let’s Put West Virginia on the Map Program. Capito and representatives from Google will host a free tech workshop for Charleston-area small businesses at the Clay Center on Wednesday, September 2, to help business owners launch a website and become visible online.“By helping business owners reach more customers online, this workshop will empower West Virginia small businesses to... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) says she supports the federal funding announcement made this week by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy to benefit West Virginia’s rising heroin problem.ONDCP Director Michael Botticelli said $13.4 million will go toward High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas across the United States. Advance drug prevention initiatives will receive $2.5 million in funding in the Appalachia region as well as New... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The EPA and the Obama administration’s next focus is the reduction of emissions of methane gas from the oil and gas industry.With the Clean Power Plan recently finalized and coal on the ropes, the EPA is proposing standards to reduce methane emissions down to 45 percent, a 40 percent decrease. The EPA has said that methane is a greenhouse gas which has a global warming potential greater than carbon dioxide.Most of the methane emitted is from production of oil and... Read More

A welcomed federal funding boost announced Tuesday by U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins, R-W.Va., will help in fighting the rising heroin epidemic in the Mountain State while advancing necessary drug prevention initiatives for the region. The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy is allocating the $2.5 million to the Heroin Response Strategy, a new partnership among five regional High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Drug crackdown efforts in West Virginia and three other states will receive a federal funding boost of nearly $400,000. U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia says the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy made the funding available to the Appalachian High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area for initiatives in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. It’s part of $13.4 million in funding announced for five regional HIDTA programs in the... Read More

The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Monday announced $13.4 million in funds to fight the rise of heroin abuse and trafficking.   A portion of the funds, $2.5 million, will fund the Heroin Response Strategy, an unprecedented partnership between the five existing regional High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas.   The strategy will increase the impact of funding by fostering collaboration between federal, state and local drug enforcement officers across 15... Read More

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., hosted Director Jon R. Lorsch from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences at West Virginia University on Aug. 13. Capito and Lorsch were joined by leaders, including President Gordon Gee, from WVU and Marshall University for a discussion highlighting the groundbreaking biomedical research occurring in West Virginia with the help of investments from NIH’s Institutional Development Award... Read More

Female students at Capital High school this week got to see a vision of their future when role models spoke at the first ever women-focused career day. The school hosted various female speakers who aimed to generate interest in the energy field, the Gazette-Mail’s Megan Kennedy reported Thursday. Speakers included U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito; Melissa Hatfield-Atkinson, supervisor at Chesapeake Energy; Amanda Marks-Cunningham, director of public affairs at Waste Management; and... Read More

MORGANTOWN — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito brought officials from the National Institutes of Health National Institute of General Medical Sciences to WVU on Thursday, Aug. 13, to show them how federal funds are benefiting the state and the nation through new medical breakthroughs. Capito, R-W.Va., along with WVU and Marshall University officials hosted Jon Lorsch, director of National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and Fred Taylor, director of the institute’s Center for Research... Read More

POCA — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., welcomed India’s deputy ambassador to the United States to West Virginia on Wednesday in hopes of strengthening the relationship between the Mountain State and the world’s second most populous country. Capito and Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu, the deputy chief of mission from the Indian Embassy, spent the afternoon touring Poca-based Kanawha Scales and Systems, a company that specializes in the weighing and automation industry. The... Read More

Since 2009, Congress has failed to come to an agreement on long-term highway funding, opting instead to pass 34 stopgap measures to keep money flowing. That’s not good government. The U.S. Senate recently passed a 35th stopgap measure that is now headed to the president’s desk. But senators, under the leadership of Mitch McConnell, R, Ky., also thought long-term, passing a six-year, $2 billion bill that would give states some clarity and certainty when planning highway and... Read More