Mike Tony

RT @wvgazettemail: Many thousands of West Virginia taxpayer dollars cover the state’s costs of protecting its legal interests. But some ca…

RT @ameliaknisely: Morrisey signs bill taking civil service status and grievance procedure from state workers from @Mike__Tony https://t.…

The arc of data center energy supply bends toward renewables, but West Virginia is grasping for a fossil fuel-fired data center energy future as Trump administration policies threaten to hobble the U.S. in the AI race: https://t.co/NlzDF7wqDZ

"It just doesn't make sense to me." Community advocates lament another West Virginia legislative session not funding the state's trust fund for flood resiliency - even in the wake of flooding that devastated the state's southern coalfields: https://t.co/GMlxFcbDMN

RT @wvgazettemail: HB 2014 would prohibit local jurisdiction over data centers and divert most of the property tax revenue they generate aw…

Coal companies saying a MSHA rule to protect miners from toxic silica dust is too costly, but their revenue and production figures suggest otherwise as unions and health professionals fight to preserve the rule: https://t.co/pviyV43YwD

The Trump administration halted momentum in West Virginia toward addressing harmful chemicals in public drinking water systems by terminating a $1 million grant to the state Department of Environmental Protection, which says it will dispute the move: https://t.co/1EzJSVm007

RT @wvgazettemail: The head of West Virginia’s state corrections system, long plagued by overcrowding and inmate deaths, has been tapped to…

"We're going to be burying miners." How the health and safety of West Virginians have been undermined by the Trump administration's decimation of NIOSH in Morgantown and throughout the country: https://t.co/1fJUM852yX

RT @wvgazettemail: Deep Trump administration cuts to NIOSH are raising fears about potential impacts to miners and other workers, with redu…

RT @wvgazettemail: Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s head has been on the cloud. But when it comes to attracting data centers, local government lead…

RT @wvgazettemail: More West Virginia lawmakers have advanced a measure that would require state agencies to strategize to push coal produc…

"It's a recipe for disaster." At the 15th anniversary of the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster that left 29 miners dead, miner safety experts and advocates say mounting MSHA resource cuts risk another disaster on that level: https://t.co/ecVsMwhmmz

Sen. Jim Justice's coal companies are again failing to provide retirees contractually promised health care coverage, according to a new federal court filing: https://t.co/lHqRMXovWO

The West Virginia Senate has sent to Gov. Morrisey's desk legislation poised to allow increased water pollution: https://t.co/BiXcX54KRV

RT @wvgazettemail: Joe Main can tell you the exact moment he found out. The head — at the time — of the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Admini…

"An attack on NIOSH is an attack on all workers in this country." Why West Virginia is especially vulnerable to adverse impacts as the Trump administration guts a federal agency that has conducted key worker health and safety research: https://t.co/pu370aGZHb