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The WV Coal Mining Institute, the WVCA and the Central Appalachian Section of SME will be held at the Stonewall Jackson Resort May 3-5, 2012. Registration information was sent out previously via e-mail with detailed information. If you did not receive please let us know and it will be resent.
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The West Virginia Eleventh Annual CEDAR Golf Classic will be held on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at the Twisted Gun Golf Course in Wharncliffe, West Virginia. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. with golf beginning at 10 a.m. promptly. Contact Bud Clapp at
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Two long-standing statewide events are being combined to create the newly named West Virginia Leadership Summit at the Waterfront Place Hotel in Morgantown, WV on April 18th and 19th. The premiere Leadership Summit combines the highly successful WV Leadership Conference, hosted for 10 years by the West Virginia Roundtable, and Generaltion West Virginia’s equally successful 5-year old Young Leaders’ Conference.
The Summit will feature keynote speaker, William C. Taylor, co-founder and founding editor of Fast Company magazine, as well as established leaders of business, industry, governmentl, education, private enterprise and philanthroy such as WV Governor Earl Ray Tomblin; Susan Brewer, CEO of Steptoe & Johnson law firm; William “Pat” Getty, president of Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation; Kim Knopf, President/CEO of Innovative Mattress Solutions; Nenry Harmon, President/CEO/Chairman of Triana Energy. The Summit will include a series of workshop sessions as well.
Registration information can be found at www.wvleadership.org.
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The websites for the West Virginia Coal Association and the Friends of Coal have been busy over the past four years. According to Google Analytics, the West Virginia Coal Association site (www.wvcoal.com) has drawn some 477,000 page views from 196,255 visitors since July 2008. During that same time frame, the Friends of Coal website (www.friendsofcoal.org) saw 363,913 page views from 124,697 visitors. Most of those visiting the pages saw at least three pages and spent several minutes on the pages prior to leaving the site. Well over 70 percent of those visiting the sites were first-time visitors (74 percent for the association site and 82 percent for the Friends of Coal site).
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Just days after a U.S. District Court shot down an agency veto of the Spruce Mine, the EPA has doubled down on its war against coal with a new set of rules which will essentially cripple the nation’s remaining coal-fired power plants.
The rule, announced Tuesday, will likely derail plans for 15 new coal-fired power plants across 10 states. The proposal drew harsh criticism from industry, congressional Republicans and coal-state Democrats, while environmental groups praised EPA's move as a landmark action but also said the agency should have done more.
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