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Here in West Virginia and Ohio, we are well aware of the importance to our economies of coal and electricity from coal-fired power plants. And many area residents understand full well that if President Obama's administration is allowed to proceed with its war against coal, our monthly utility bills will skyrocket.
Clearly, that is not the situation everywhere, as Sen. Joe Manchin is coming to understand.
Manchin and a few other coal-state senators have been waging a lonely battle against the White House and its Environmental Protection Agency. This week, Manchin vowed once again to keep up the good fight.
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"EPA’s claim that the statute contemplates that a permit is never really final is not easily squared with Congress’s clear desire to limit duplication and delay so that commerce would not be disrupted more than necessary. What would be the point of insisting upon expedition in granting permits if a permit isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on and commerce could be interrupted at any time?" U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson
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“Further Along the Road to Zero” is this year’s topic for the Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce’s Coal Symposium scheduled for August 13-15 at the Quality Hotel and Conference Center (formerly Holiday Inn) in Bluefield, WV.
A limited number of tabletop exhibit spaces are available and PDH credits may be earned.
Golf will also be a option on Monday, August 13 at the Fincastle Country Club.
For more information contact the Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce at (304) 327-7184 or e-mail: info@
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Peter’s Creek Coal Asociation will holds it’s 26th Anniversary of the annual PCCA Golf Outing and Dinner at Edgewood Country Club in Charleston on Thursday, June 28th.
Contact Deron Upton at (314) 342-7591 or Flick Goldsmith (304) 343-0500 or e-mail:
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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, government, 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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