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Thursday, April 25, 2024

U.S. Representative Evan Jenkins (wv-3)

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  • Jenkins introduces bill to stop stream buffer zone rule

    By Chris Dickerson |
    WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Evan Jenkins has introduced a resolution to force Congress to take an up-or-down vote on a recently finalized anti-coal regulation from the Obama administration.

  • State Republican leaders blast Obama's Stream Protection Rule

    By Chris Dickerson |
    CHARLESTON — A host of Republican leaders are blasting President Obama’s Stream Protection Rule, which they say would “dramatically reduce coal mining.” The rule, which is set for publication Dec. 20, would prohibit any change to the land and environment near coal mines.

  • Senators hold field hearing to discuss local impact of EPA regulations

    By Kyla Asbury |
    LOGAN – West Virginia Senators Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin, along with U.S. Representative Evan Jenkins held a field hearing at Chief Logan Conference Center to discuss the local impact of the EPA’s climate regulations.

  • Common ground found during drug crisis

    By Evan Jenkins |
    WASHINGTON – Nearly every day, we see another story in the news about an overdose in West Virginia.

  • Morrisey, Jenkins offer update on flood relief work

    By Chris Dickerson |
    CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey says he has been moved by the kindness and resiliency he has seen from state residents in the past week in the aftermath of deadly flooding.

  • 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