âLetâs talk trash.â
Trash was indeed the subject addressed by some county officials at a recent public meeting hosted by Logan County Commissioner Diana Barnette in which the subject of littering and illegal garbage disposal in Logan County were the issues.
Present for the discussion were representatives of the Department of Natural Resources, the Logan County Commission, Logan Prosecuting Attorney David Wandling, two Logan County House of Delegates members, a state Department of Highways official, a Waste Management representative, State Sen. Rupie Phillips, and all three Logan County magistrates.
In the audience were at least two Logan County mayors, Logan County Clerk John Turner, several businessmen, teachers and other concerned citizens who either posed questions or presented their ideas as to how to address the littering and trash problem in the county.
Published: Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Coal at a Kentucky mine. Photo credit: Dylan Brown/E&E News/file
Lawmakers in several coal-producing states have introduced recent legislation aimed at propping up coal-fired power plants as electricity market trends tip away from the fossil fuel. Dylan Brown/E&E News/file
Four states are weighing plans to stall the retirement of coal-fired power plants, a sign of growing resistance in conservative, energy-producing regions against national efforts to decarbonize the grid and a reaction to the Texas blackouts, analysts say.
Lawmakers in Montana, Wyoming, West Virginia and North Dakota have introduced bills on the issue, including measures requiring utility regulators to scrutinize planned coal plant retirements and proposing funds for carbon capture projects.
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Legislature passed a bill on the last day of the regular legislative session Saturday designed to help the coal industry while rejecting an amendment designed
Senate Energy Chairman Randy Smith addresses his colleagues. (Will Price/West Virginia Legislative Photography)
A bill aimed at maintaining a place for coal in West Virginia energy has evolved throughout the legislative session, and the final day was no different.
Lawmakers had to work out their differences on the bill right up until the final hours, debating whether to keep a late amendment to establish a “Coal Community Comeback Plan” to examine how to help faltering communities thrive.
The House Republican supermajority voted to rescind the comeback plan amendment on SB542 that they had just narrowly agreed, 49-48, to place in the bill the prior day. The Senate majority expressed concern that the addition went a step too far, and the House majority voted to back off just to assure the original bill would pass.
Sen. Eric Tarr, R-Putnam, speaks on the floor on Wednesday, April 7, 2021.
In a Wednesday evening floor session that stretched for more than three hours and became at times fiery between members of the Republican majority and Democratic minority members of the West Virginia Senate passed a measure calling for the reduction of the personal income tax and a budget bill.
Following Gov. Jim Justice holding a summit Monday with top legislators of both parties, Sen. Eric Tarr, R-Putnam, offered an amendment Wednesday to House Bill 3300 a marquee proposal this session that calls for a reduction in the personal income tax.