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Legislation that would approve an air permit fee structure different from what West Virginia environmental regulators had sought has made progress toward passage.
The state is the nation’s fourth-largest producer of marketed natural gas, but it powered just 4 percent of the state’s net electricity generation in 2021. The legislation would designate suitable sites for natural gas electric generation projects.