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Let's Put West Virginia on the Map Program Boosts Businesses' Online Presence
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 represen… Continue Reading
08.28.15
Editorial: National Media Seeing EPA's Damage in W.Va.
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 … Continue Reading
08.26.15
Editorial: Taking Note of Assault on W.Va.
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… Continue Reading
08.25.15
Five Counties to Receive Federal Funding to Stimulate Economic Growth
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 Webster."It… Continue Reading
08.24.15
Capito Op-Ed: New Funding Boosts Fight Against Drugs
As West Virginia's drug epidemic continues to grow, so too must our efforts to fight back.Our state is no stranger to the heartbreak and devastation that accompanies drug addiction. According to a recent study, West Virginia has the highest rate of drug overdose deaths in the nation. In fact, West Virginia's drug overdose death rate is more than double the national average with 34 overdose deaths for every 100,000 West Virginia residents.Pair these staggering statistics with the recent surge of … Continue Reading
08.23.15
Editorial: Attack on natural gas: EPA takes aim at another fossil fuel
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 potent greenhouse ga… Continue Reading
08.21.15
Editorial: Obama, EPA going rogue on coal, oil and gas
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 oil and natural gas.Just when West Virginia … Continue Reading
08.20.15
Capito Op-Ed: New Funding Boosts Fight Against Drugs
As West Virginia's drug epidemic continues to grow, so too must our efforts to fight back.Our state is no stranger to the heartbreak and devastation that accompanies drug addiction. According to a recent study, West Virginia has the highest rate of drug overdose deaths in the nation. In fact, West Virginia's drug overdose death rate is more than double the national average with 34 overdose deaths for every 100,000 West Virginia residents.Pair these staggering statistics with the recent surge of … Continue Reading
08.19.15
Capito Partners with Google to Bring West Virginia Small Businesses Online
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 utilize the li… Continue Reading
08.19.15
Capito supports federal funding to benefit rising drug problems in W.Va.
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 England, Philadelph… Continue Reading
08.18.15
EPA targets methane emissions from oil and natural gas
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 natural gas, … Continue Reading
08.18.15
Heroin epidemic: HIDTA funding boost helpful
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 … Continue Reading
08.18.15
Federal funding to help drug crackdown efforts in Appalachia
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 eastern hal… Continue Reading
08.18.15
$13.4 million appropriated for regional drug task forces
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 states.… Continue Reading
08.14.15
Sen. Capito brings top official from National Institutes of Health to WVU
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 (IDeA) program. … Continue Reading
08.14.15
Daily Mail editorial: Career fair shows young women opportunities
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 others. T… Continue Reading
08.14.15
Sen. Capito promotes health funding
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 Capacity Bu… Continue Reading
08.12.15
Capito, Indian ambassador tour WV company
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 two walked toget… Continue Reading
08.05.15
Daily Mail editorial: Highway funding must remain a priority
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 infrastructure projec… Continue Reading
08.05.15
Republicans Set Up Their Attack on Obama’s Climate Plan
Congressional Republicans have promised a robust response to President Obama's carbon-emission rules for power plants, and the Senate Wednesday lined up their first real piece of ammo. And Democrats showed that they're going to take their Republican opponents to the mat over the reality of climate change. After a messy markup that saw Democrats walking out, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee cleared a bill from Sen. Shelley Moore Capito that would force the Environmental Protect… Continue Reading
