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Friday, March 29, 2024

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  • RAGA release TV ad for West Virginia Attorney General race

    By Kyla Asbury |
    CHARLESTON – The Republican Attorneys General Association released its first television advertisement in the West Virginia Attorney General race, highlighting Patrick Morrisey as a “fighter.”

  • Congressman stands up against executive overreach

    By Kyla Asbury |
    WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, the House found back against overreach by the Obama administration and stood on the sides of jobs and affordable energy, according to a press release issued by Congressman David McKinley.

  • Morrisey claims victory in property rights case before U.S. Supreme Court

    By Kyla Asbury |
    CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is claiming victory with a unanimous decision from the U.S.

  • Texas, W.Va. AGs ask EPA to halt spending on Clean Power Plan

    By Chris Dickerson |
    CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently sent a letter urging the Environmental Protection Agency to stop spending federal tax dollars to comply with the halted Power Plan.

  • Engines of discontent

    By The West Virginia Record |
    “Drivers, start your certified-configuration engines!” It just doesn't have the same ring to it.

  • Capito working to improve energy for West Virginians

    By Chris Dickerson |
    WASHINGTON – I recently took several steps to promote more affordable, reliable and efficient energy.

  • Morrisey applauds EPA withdrawal of auto racing rule

    By Chris Dickerson |
    CHARLESTON – West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is praising the Environmental Protection Agency for withdrawing its anti-racing rule just two weeks after he joined a coalition of eight attorneys general who objected to the proposal.

  • EPA 'leadership' hurting families throughout America

    By David McKinley |
    WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency has finally admitted that their relentless war on coal is not about fighting climate change but rather to show "leadership." EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said so in recent testimony before the Energy and Commerce Committee in the House of Representatives.

  • New EPA rule seeks end to auto racing

    By The West Virginia Record |
    Nags and scolds. They think they know everything, that they're smarter than everyone else, that they have the right to tell their inferiors – us – what we should and shouldn't do. They worm their way into positions of authority and start issuing prescriptions and prohibitions for our “betterment.”

  • Morrisey joins six states in challenging EPA rule with auto racing

    By Kyla Asbury |
    CHARLESTON – West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has joined six other states in urging the Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw a proposed rule that could deal a significant blow to stock car and drag racing in West Virginia.

  • Jenkins rips into EPA chief during agency budget hearing

    By Chris Dickerson |
    WASHINGTON – Rep. Evan Jenkins told the head of the Environmental Protection Agency she cannot understand the damage her agency’s policies have had on West Virginia until she visits and sees for herself. “Administrator, West Virginians are a proud people,” Jenkins, a Republican, told Gina McCarthy during an EPA budget hearing March 22 with the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies. “We want to work. We want to provide a better future for our ch

  • State leaders criticize Clinton's anti-coal comment

    By Chris Dickerson |
    CHARLESTON – Several state leaders are taking issue with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s comments that she would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” Clinton’s comment came Sunday during a town hall meeting in Columbus, Ohio.

  • West Virginia's comeback begins now

    By Patrick Morrisey |
    CHARLESTON – Historic and unprecedented. Those words illustrate West Virginia’s seismic victory recently at the U.S. Supreme Court – a victory that reverberated across the nation instilling hope in the state’s coal industry and forcing bureaucrats to think twice before using executive regulation to bring about radical change. The ruling, issued Feb. 9, immediately stopped President Obama from implementing the centerpiece of his coal-killing agenda. It limits further economic damage by freezing t

  • Morrisey, other AGs push to USSC to protect property rights

    By Chris Dickerson |
    CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is leading a 21-state bipartisan movement urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a lower court’s ruling that protects the rights of property owners nationwide. The coalition’s amicus, or friend of the court, brief says property owners are entitled to immediately challenge the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers in court anytime its officials label someone’s property as a protected wetland.

  • Drawing a line in the sand

    By Roger Hanshaw |
    CHARLESTON – The West Virginia House of Delegates sent a unanimous message last week to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: stay out of our homes. We’ve had a lot of healthy, robust debates this session on issues that lawmakers have had strong disagreements on. They’ve attracted a lot of headlines, and sometimes give the appearance that lawmakers in Charleston can’t agree on anything.

  • Capito, Manchin urge court to halt EPA Clean Power Plan

    By Chris Dickerson |
    WASHINGTON – West Virginia's U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin filed an amicus brief supporting the state's effort to stop the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. Capito, a Republican, and Manchin, a Democrat, signed the amicus brief spearheaded by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.,) Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and House Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whi

  • States file opening briefs against EPA’s Clean Power Plan

    By Jessica Karmasek |
    Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed enforcement of the agency’s new rule until arguments in the case conclude. Arguments on the plan’s legality are scheduled for June before the federal appeals court.

  • Thank you, Justice Scalia

    By The West Virginia Record |
    One of the last acts of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia before his death last week was to explain high court’s majority view in granting a stay of the implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, pending the outcome of a challenge now being considered by the U.S.

  • Morrisey: States have no legal obligation to comply with halted Clean Power Plan

    By Jessica Karmasek |
    The attorney general, joined by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, sent a letter Friday to two groups representing state environmental and utility regulators across the nation, pointing to the U.S. Supreme Court’s stay of the EPA’s new rule earlier this week.

  • U.S. SC sides with states, halts EPA’s Clean Power Plan

    By Jessica Karmasek |
    West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton hailed the high court’s decision to stay the agency’s new rule, calling it a “major victory” for Americans. The White House disagreed with the court’s order, but said it is confident the agency will prevail in the court challenge.