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West Virginia is taking steps to harness the $1.2 billion that’s coming available in federal broadband expansion investment. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., will be accompanied in West Virginia on Friday by Alan Davidson, the assistant secretary of Commerce for communications and information. He’s the guy who leads the federal office over the rollout of the big broadband expansion. “We’re going to be talking about rolling out and making sure that the last... Read More

MORGANTOWN – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito talked renewed Mountain Valley Pipeline delays, Bidenomics and more with members of the West Virginia press on Thursday. On Tuesday, the U.S. 4th Circuit Appeals Court issued a stay on the MVP under the Endangered Species Act. The federal court also granted a stay of the U.S. Forest Service’s decision to allow the pipeline to be constructed through the Jefferson National Forest while the court considers The Wilderness Society’s challenge... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WBOY) — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R, WV) Wednesday addressed a term you may have heard lately—”Bidenomics.” The term is meant to summarize President Joe Biden’s economic policies. In recent weeks, the president has been using the term more as political analysts say he’s using “Bidenomics” as the foundation of his 2024 re-election campaign. But recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research showed... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WVDN) – On July 11, 2023, U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), ranking member and chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, introduced the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA). This bipartisan legislation would bolster the palliative care and hospice workforce and meet the growing need for care by investing in training,... Read More

HUNTINGTON — Marshall University and West Virginia State University will split $1 million in federal funding secured by West Virginia’s senators this year. Last month, U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., both members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced they had secured $1 million in Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) funding for the Marshall University Research Corporation to support research and education in cybersecurity, including... Read More

HUNTINGTON — An iconic building that housed one of Huntington’s largest historical industries will soon get new life. The building on 3rd Avenue, known colloquially as the sawtooth roof building, was built in 1949 to serve as ACF Industry’s machine shop for its Huntington location. It has been vacant for at least a decade, as ACF slowly dwindled its workforce from hundreds down to single digits since significant layoffs in 2001. The site will soon be home to the Marshall... Read More

CHARLESTON — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) delivered remarks at the ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday for the University of Charleston’s (Downtown Innovation Hub (DIH) in Charleston. Capito helped secure funding for the facility’s construction with a $1.5 million U.S. Economic Development Agency (EDA) grant in May of 2022. The UC DIH will serve to grow and accelerate existing business in Charleston. “West Virginia is open for business, and I am thrilled to... Read More

Several lawmakers excoriated a federal appeals court ruling Monday granting a coalition of environmental groups' request to block construction of a major natural gas pipeline green-lit under the bipartisan debt ceiling package passed last month. The debt ceiling bill — the so-called Fiscal Responsibility Act which suspended the limit on federal debt through early 2025 — included a provision automatically approving any outstanding federal environmental permits for the... Read More

A federal appeals court has again blocked construction on a natural gas pipeline being built through Virginia and West Virginia, this time doing so even after Congress ordered the project’s approval. The stay issued Monday by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond comes after Congress passed legislation last month requiring all necessary permits be issued for construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The law also stripped the 4th Circuit from jurisdiction over the case. U.S.... Read More

(LOOTPRESS) – “Numerous officials gathered at the former ACF Industries site along 3rd Avenue this morning to celebrate the Marshall Advanced Manufacturing Center receiving a $550,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to support the continued growth of its welding training programs, which will be moving to the former ACF site in early 2025. The Marshall Advanced Manufacturing Center (formerly RCBI until recently) trains more than 700 people annually in a variety of... Read More

Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) have reintroduced the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA), designed to bolster the field’s shrinking workforce with federal support. If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. The bill would also expand continuing education and career development programs and incentives in these fields. “After... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WVDN) — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Appropriations and Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committees, today announced a total of $2,799,136 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and U.S Department of Education (DoE) to support projects throughout West Virginia. USDA FUNDING: First, Senator Capito announced $1,999,664 in... Read More

A grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony took place Monday morning at the corner of Capitol and Lee streets for the University of Charleston’s Downtown Innovation Hub, a business accelerator location designed to help small businesses scale up and grow. “We’re going to be working with existing businesses that have kind of plateaued in terms of their performance,” said University of Charleston President Marty Roth. “Through training, workshops, networking,... Read More

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – The ribbon is officially cut on the brand new University of Charleston Downtown Innovation Hub (DIH). Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Charleston Mayor Amy Goodwin and business owners marked the opening of the new center, which is located on the corner of Lee and Capitol streets. Primarily funded through a US economic development grant, the new DIH center aims at helping local businesses with coaching, employee training and creating economic... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A new setting right in the heart of downtown Charleston is now helping small businesses around the Kanawha Valley scale up and grow. University of Charleston and city officials along with business leaders and Senator Shelley Moore Capito came together Monday morning to welcome in the arrival of UC’s Downtown Innovation Hub by way of a ribbon cutting ceremony. UC President Marty Roth told MetroNews that the new hub will help local businesses grow through a... Read More

WASHINGTON (WV News) — Federal regulators have given the Mountain Valley Pipeline the green light to restart construction. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently issued an order allowing developers to “proceed with all construction activities.” Work on the project is expected to resume “shortly,” said Natalie Cox, director of communications and corporate affairs for project developers Equitrans Midstream Corp., in an email to WV News. “We expect the... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — The state Public Service Commission has issued an order aimed at streamlining part of the process of boosting broadband availability in West Virginia. The order deals with utility poles jointly owned by Monongahela Power/The Potomac Edison Co. and Frontier West Virginia Inc. Until now, other companies — referred to in the PSC order as third parties — had to get permission from Mon Power/Potomac Edison and Frontier West Virginia. Under a stipulation... Read More

Marshall University and West Virginia State University will split $1 million in federal funding secured by West Virginia’s senators this year. Last month, U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., both members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced they had secured $1 million in Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) funding for the Marshall University Research Corporation to support research and education in cybersecurity, including the purchase of IT... Read More

WASHINGTON (WV News) — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., is continuing to push back against a set of proposed Environmental Protection Agency rules she has said would force the closure of West Virginia’s coal-fired power plants. Capito recently teamed with Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., to ask the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to study how the EPA’s power plant performance and emission standards would impact the nation’s electricity grids. “The proposal... Read More

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va, is raising an alarm about the impact of President Joe Biden’s proposed Clean Power Plan 2.0 on the nation’s ability to sustain electric reliability. Capito, Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, are asking Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Willie L. Phillips and FERC Commissioners James Danly,... Read More