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
The West Virginia Legislature used its 2025 regular legislative session to reaffirm its allegiance to coal, rejecting efforts to benefit other energy industries. A centerpiece of Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s legislative agenda approved by the Legislature in the final hours of the 60-day session Saturday is a pro-coal bill also aimed at attracting data center development.
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1 week ago |
wvgazettemail.com | Mike Tony
Wednesday marks one year to the day since federal labor regulators gathered at a United Mine Workers of America district office just outside Uniontown, Pennsylvania, to hail their new landmark rule designed to limit miners’ exposure to toxic silica dust.
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waynecountynews.com | Mike Tony
The West Virginia Legislature has passed controversial, far-reaching legislation aimed at attracting facilities that could grow the state’s tax base but also threaten to raise power bills and cause environmental harm. In the final hours of the state’s 2025 regular legislative session Saturday night, the Senate sent House Bill 2014 to its most vocal supporter, Gov. Patrick Morrisey, who requested the bill to attract and fast-track development of data centers.
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herald-dispatch.com | Mike Tony
The West Virginia Legislature has passed bills that have drawn concern from the United Mine Workers of America over how they would change state mine oversight. The Legislature passed Senate Bills 883 and 942, on Friday and Saturday, respectively, sending them to Gov. Patrick Morrisey.
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1 week ago |
herald-dispatch.com | Mike Tony
The West Virginia Legislature has passed bills stripping many state workers of civil service status and access to grievance procedures, moves feared to threaten job security and encourage partisan loyalty throughout the state workforce. The Senate on Friday sent House Bills 2008 and 2009 to Gov.
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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