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Are you a Friend of Coal? Now you can also have a Friends of Coal motorcycle license plate as well, letting the world know how important coal is to you and your family! Are you one of the 63,000 West Virginia families whose livelihood depends on coal? Sign up for your Friends of Coal official regular or motorcycle license plate today.
The regular license plate, as well as the motorcycle plate, are the first issued by the State of West Virginia in any color other than white, the Friends of Coal license plate is black, with white lettering and a Friends of Coal logo prominently displayed on the left side of the plate. These license plates are also of a new flat material and are highly reflective – all new State of West Virginia design.
The motorcycle plate will have a one-time fee of $56.00 with annual renewal fee of $31.00.
The new application is an all-in-one application, either regular or motorcycle plate. Please read the second page of the downloadable application for complete instructions.
If you have already ordered your license plate, then please pass the application along to your friends and family. Companies can submit multiple applications by completing a form for each vehicle and submitting one check with the $70 fee for each vehicle.
If you need additional applications or have any questions please give Sandi a call at 304.342.4153 or e-mail to:
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- Antarctic sea ice reached record high levels for late December 2014 and early January 2015, peaking around January 10 at more than 2.5 million square kilometers (965,000 square miles) above the 1981 to 2010 average, and 1.05 million square kilometers (580,000 square miles) above the previous record (2014) for that date.
- Coal and the River: Each year, approximately 120 million tons of coal travels by barge along the Ohio River. That is roughly the same as the recent annual coal production of West Virginia.
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The State Wrestling Meet will be held next weekend at the Big Sandy Arena in Huntington. Awards will begin around 6 p.m. on Saturday (28th of February).
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Last week, U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Water Resources Subcommittee Chairman Bob Gibbs (R-Ohio) reintroduced H.R. 896, the “Regulatory Certainty Act,” which would clarify the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) role under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA).
The bill clarifies that EPA does not have the authority to veto a Section 404 permit after the Army Corps of Engineers has issued the permit as the Agency did in the case of the Spruce Mine in West Virginia.
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Jim Justice announced February 17, that he has repurchased Bluestone, a mining facility in McDowell and Wyoming counties, from the Russian company he initially sold to in 2009, Mechel OAO and has plans to reopen a new company, Bluestone Resources, Inc.
The Justice family sold U.S. coal producer Bluestone Coal Corp. to Mechel in May 2009 for $436 million in cash and 83.3 million Mechel preferred shares. At the time, Mechel was Russia’s largest producer of steelmaking coal.
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