Mike Tony
Staff Writer at Charleston Gazette-Mail
Reporting on the environment and energy for @wvgazettemail. Formerly @hsuniontown and @DailyPenn. Editor of @IvyHoopsOnline. Email: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
wvgazettemail.com | Mike Tony
Congress is moving toward severing a bedrock fabric in West Virginia’s social safety net. State antihunger advocates are putting up a fight. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Chairman John Boozman, R-Ark., last week released bill text covering its jurisdiction as part of far-reaching Senate budget reconciliation legislation that, if approved, would make sweeping cuts to food benefits for low-income people in West Virginia and across the nation.
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1 week ago |
wvgazettemail.com | Mike Tony
A Trump administration budget proposal to gut funding critical for water and wastewater infrastructure loomed over a public meeting the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection held Wednesday to take public input on its planned priorities for such projects.
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herald-dispatch.com | Mike Tony
Greenhouse gases kill. The United States is one of the world’s most prolific polluters of them. But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed finding that greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants don’t contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution.
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wvgazettemail.com | Mike Tony
Saturday marked one year since the Mountain Valley Pipeline was placed into service despite concerns among community and environmental advocates the project crossing unusually steep slopes in West Virginia and Virginia was unsafe. A year later, those safety concerns have been renewed by a federal lawsuit alleging the pipeline’s developers attempted to cover up illegally deficient pipeline welding. Michael Barnhill of Hardin County, Texas, said he was fired from a welding inspector position on Dec.
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2 weeks ago |
herald-dispatch.com | Sierra Marling |Mike Tony
Kimberly Barker says Medicaid is a lifeline for West Virginia, and it’s also vital coverage that has kept her healthy. In July 2009, Barker left an abusive relationship. “I was attacked and strangled by a boyfriend,” she recalled. “I don’t think I was supposed to leave that house alive. I had been hit in the back of the head, side, front and slammed into the floor. Luckily, I escaped.”She was admitted to the emergency room with a concussion and received further testing due to head trauma.
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The Trump administration and West Virginia’s congressional delegation have been in lockstep in rolling back protections against industrial air pollution especially prevalent in the Mountain State: https://t.co/safN8klTx5
RT @wvgazettemail: Reporter @Mike__Tony, who focuses on the energy and environment beat as well as investigative reporting, is a 2025 recip…
Gov. Morrisey has appointed his policy director’s college-student daughter and political operatives each linked to hundreds in thousands in spending to support his campaign to the state's judicial vacancy panel - as a vacancy looms on WV’s highest court: https://t.co/dkmg56UOs5
