West Virginia Senate President Craig Blair and state House of Delegates Speaker Roger Hanshaw have objected to an agreement between West Virginia environmental groups and the United States Environmental Protection Agency aimed at cleaning up the Lower Guyandotte River watershed. Blair and Hanshaw argue the proposed agreement allows the EPA to ignore water quality standard compliance criteria established by state legislators and doesn’t respect the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s authority.
The West Virginia Legislature s special session ended Tuesday without providing an allocation for the state s Flood Resiliency Trust Fund created last year. Gov. Jim Justice had previously called for the fund left empty by last year s law creating it to be supplied with $50 million by the Legislature but left the matter off his list of legislative items for lawmakers to tackle during the special session that ended Tuesday.
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Astrophysicist and physics professor Maura McLaughlin from West Virginia University has attained a remarkable feat by being inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the first from WVU to receive such an honor. The NAS is renowned for providing expert counsel on scientific matters in the U.S. McLaughlin s election into the NAS, alongside 120 other new members, highlights her significant contributions to astrophysics, including groundbreaking work on detecting low-frequency gravitational waves and helping to discover fast radio bursts.
Astrophysicist and physics professor Maura McLaughlin from West Virginia University has attained a remarkable feat by being inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the first from WVU to receive such an honor. The NAS is renowned for providing expert counsel on scientific matters in the U.S. McLaughlin s election into the NAS, alongside 120 other new members, highlights her significant contributions to astrophysics, including groundbreaking work on detecting low-frequency gravitational waves and helping to discover fast radio bursts.