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Two bills dealing with the nation’s recycling and composting infrastructure have been reintroduced to Congress for a second year, drawing praise from several industry organizations.  The Recycling and Composting Accountability Act and the Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act of 2023 were reintroduced on bipartisan lines by Democratic Senator Tom Carper, Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito and Republican Senator John Boozman.  Last year, both... Read More

A natural gas pipeline under construction in Appalachia got the thumbs up from a Biden administration official. U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm wrote to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week in support of fast approval on any further action on the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The 300-mile pipeline would transport 2 billion cubic feet a day of natural gas from northern West Virginia to the mid-Atlantic. It’s currently held up in federal court. The Fourth U.S. Circuit... Read More

INSTITUTE, W.Va— A project that has been in the works for around six years now, the methanol manufacturing facility in Kanawha County is finally complete, and it’s the first of its kind to get established in the Mountain State. Governor Jim Justice, Senators Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin, among other West Virginia and U.S representatives joined officials from KKCG, a Czech Republic and Switzerland-based investment and innovation company to recognize the official opening of US... Read More

INSTITUTE, W.Va. (WV News) — West Virginia officials attended a ceremony Monday celebrating the state’s first methanol production facility. US Methanol have invested more than $250 million into its Liberty Once facility in the Institute Industrial Complex, which will employ 56 workers and produce around 200,000 metric tons of methanol annually. “US Methanol’s investment comes at an integral time for our country as we work to reach our petrochemical, energy and... Read More

West Virginia lays claim to Lily’s Place, the nation’s first medical center specifically created for infants born from addicted parents. The Huntington facility is now expanding their services to support these growing infants’ siblings and families. Since 2014, Lily’s Place has served more than 350 babies born with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS). With Huntington having one of the highest opioid addiction rates in the country, organizers found the number of babies born... Read More

Both Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., are pushing President Joe Biden to come to the negotiating table to iron out a deal on the nation’s debt limit. “We can’t default on our national debt,” Capito said Thursday during a virtual press briefing. “But we must have some concessions on spending.” She said Biden last met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Feb. 1 on dealing with the debt limit, which will have to be raised, but so... Read More

KENOVA/HUNTINGTON, WV (LOOTPRESS) – Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) traveled to Wayne and Cabell counties where she made visits focused on manufacturing, economic development, child health care, and addiction recovery. First, Senator Capito visited the Braskem facility in Kenova, W.Va., where she met with national leadership and received a tour. Braskem is the largest petrochemical company in the Americas and the world’s leading biopolymer producer, producing 529... Read More

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held in Huntington Friday for a new addition on to the youth counseling facility, Lily’s Place Children’s Center. U.S Senator Shelley Moore Capito paid a visit to the ceremony, welcoming the third expansion project to be made to Lily’s Place that will focus on youth and their families better being equipped in navigating their mental health. Funding for the new addition has come through a Congressionally Directed... Read More

The battle over the regs: The emissions regulations, as we wrote last week, are a sizeable regulatory stick meant to work alongside the enlarged carrots of tax credits for consumer electric vehicle purchases, all of which serve the administration’s goals of rapidly expanding EV sales. Sen. Ed Markey, who chairs the Environment and Public Works air and climate subcommittee, praised the new proposed rules during a hearing Tuesday and said the suite of EV actions would help... Read More

The hydrogen rush is on.After Congress provided $9.5 billion in funding through the 2021 public works legislation and tax credits through a 2022 climate law, politicians in Washington and U.S. states are jockeying to land federal funding for hydrogen technology demonstration projects.Together, these pillars have triggered broad interest in hydrogen, a ubiquitous element long held out, much like nuclear fusion technology, as a potential energy Shangri-La, providing stable power with scant... Read More

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held in Huntington Friday for a new addition on to the youth counseling facility, Lily’s Place Children’s Center. U.S Senator Shelley Moore Capito paid a visit to the ceremony, welcoming the third expansion project to be made to Lily’s Place that will focus on youth and their families better being equipped in navigating their mental health. Funding for the new addition has come through a Congressionally Directed... Read More

Funding totaling $2,710,000 is going to both Hardy County and the Eastern Panhandle town of Romney as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Development Grant Program. The program is part of a commitment by the USDA to “improve the economy and quality of life in rural America,” according to the agency’s website.  “The funding from the USDA will help more West Virginians reliably access clean water and make distribution more efficient for all... Read More

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said she is “slightly encouraged” about the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) getting back on track. Capito said during a virtual press briefing Thursday that the U.S. Forest Service approval of a final environmental impact statement (FSEIS) to cross the Jefferson National Forest in Monroe County and Giles County, Va., is encouraging, but the court has shot those down before. Capito was referring to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in... Read More

The last few years have taught us all about the importance of supply chains. From the production of consumer goods to the stability of our economy and the health of our environment, sound supply chains strengthen our nation and keep our economy moving forward. It is essential that our nation make the investments necessary to capture recyclable materials so they can be remade and help to address gaps in our supply chain. In doing so, we will be creating a more sustainable and circular economy. As... Read More

According to Capito, this legislation is designed to reinstate Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation, and Authorization measure (EBITDA) for US businesses. This reinstatement could also help make it easier for capital insensitive companies to raise capital or obtain financing, protect US jobs and wages, and strengthen global competition. In the midst of continued high inflation, high interest rates, and increased taxes burdening U.S. businesses, additional limitations like these jeopardize... Read More

A coalition of business associations in West Virginia and Arizona sent letters to their Senators on Wednesday, asking them to oppose the nomination of Julie Su for Secretary of Labor. The letters to Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.), Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) express “alarm” over Su’s “anti-small business record” in her home state of California and at the federal level. The letters were signed by 17 local... Read More

WASHINGTON (WV News) — Officials with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently assured Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., that they will provide assistance and support to West Virginia as it works to develop nuclear power generation in the state. During her weekly press briefing Thursday, Capito discussed a recent hearing with NRC officials. In 2022, the West Virginia Legislature passed Senate Bill 4, which repealed a pair of bills passed in 1996 that established the state’s ban... Read More

WASHINGTON (WV News) — Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., have each weighed in on the federal debt limit proposal recently announced by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy’s bill, called the “Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023,” would raise the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion for about a year while attempting to repeal aspects of President Joe Biden’s agenda. Manchin issued a statement urging compromise on the issue. “America is facing a... Read More

President Biden’s choice to lead the Labor Department faces an uncertain fate within the Democratic-controlled Senate because of her tenure overseeing a California unemployment agency that paid out billions in fraudulent benefits at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.  At least three members of the Democratic majority are up in the air on Julie Su, despite having voted to confirm her as undersecretary of labor in 2021. The uncertainty comes as business groups and Republicans... Read More

President Biden kicked off April by dealing America’s farmers and small businesses yet another blow in the name of his radical climate agenda. With the stroke of his pen, Biden rejected the will of a bipartisan majority in Congress and pushed forward his Administration’s hallmark water rule that significantly expands federal regulatory control over our land and waterways. Washington Democrats’ latest effort to force its liberal agenda on the American public is anything but... Read More