MORGANTOWN – Touting “Mountaineer momentum,” WVU President Michael Benson offered a bit of a progress report Monday during his second State of the University address. “We are in a state of intentional forward motion,” he said during the roughly 30-minute address offered prior to the ...
PARKERSBURG – West Virginia University in Parkersburg, in partnership with another school, has received a grant that will expand manufacturing education and help develop the area’s workforce. WVU Parkersburg and BridgeValley Community and Technical College have been awarded nearly $2 million through the Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) Initiative to expand advanced manufacturing education and workforce development across 11 West Virginia counties, according to a press release from ...
CHARLESTON – West Virginia’s political leaders were quick to praise a move by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to roll back Biden-era rules limiting emissions by electric power plants in the state and across the nation, though advocates for clean air warned about the health effects. The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it was implementing the final repeal of 2024 regulations governing power plant emissions put into place during the administration of former President Joe Biden. The announcement was first made at the G20 Regulatory Efficiency Symposium in ...
CHARLESTON – Lawmakers, state regulators and utilities are trying to ensure West Virginia’s aging coal-fired power plants continue to provide base-load energy into the regional energy grid. The Joint Committee on Energy and Public Works heard from officials with the Office of Energy, the ...
MARIETTA - The Center for Appalachian Innovation at Marietta College will host a summit to focus on strengthening communities and expanding opportunities in Appalachian Ohio. The Summit on Rural Development–The Start of It All will be held from 8 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Sept. 24 in the McDonough ...
A Chamber-led effort to improve one of Marietta’s most visible entry points is officially moving forward. For the past two years, the Marietta Area Chamber of Commerce (MACC), through its Restore & Thrive Committee, has been working to improve the fencing along Pike Street near Exit ...
