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Biden’s Road to Clean Energy Runs Through West Virginia Coal Country Source: By Kellie Lunney, Bloomberg Business • Posted: Tuesday, May 4, 2021
The state’s senators, Joe Manchin and Shelley Capito, are poised to shape the nation’s energy transition with the challenges of their home state firmly in mind.
The New River Gorge in southern West Virginia. With the creation of a new national park here, tourism in the region is expected to increase. Photographer: Kristian Thacker for Bloomberg Businessweek
Gerald Lucas, 69, is a former coal miner and federal mine inspector who now gives public tours underground at the Beckley, W.Va., Exhibition Coal Mine, a working mine that ceased operations in 1953. He describes it as a fun job that allows him to share his decades of experience with visitors.
Washington While US President Joe Biden s first 100 days in office brought a flurry of executive actions, many pieces of his climate agenda, including key parts of his 10-year, $2 trillion infrastructure-focused American Jobs Plan, will require approval from Congress, where partisan divides and parliamentary procedures could determine the fate of those proposals.
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In the early weeks of Biden s presidency, Congress was consumed with passing additional coronavirus relief legislation. The president signed a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 spending package into law in March that increased funding for low-income households to pay their utility bills but was otherwise mostly absent of major energy and climate provisions.
9-year-old Broomfield girl inspires legislation for people with hearing loss
Third-grader Ally Tumblin s letter inspired Congressman Joe Neguse to introduce Ally s Act, a bill that will require insurance companies to cover hearing devices. Author: Lori Lizarraga Updated: 7:59 PM MST February 1, 2021
BROOMFIELD, Colo. When a 9-year-old Broomfield girl, born without her right ear and ear canal, wrote a letter to her congressman in 2019, she and her mother didn t think they would even get a response.
But young Ally Tumblin s letter inspired Congressman Joe Neguse to introduce a bill that would require insurance companies to cover hearing devices for children like Ally, all over the country.