CHARLESTON, West Virginia, March 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2023: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today applauded the announcement that Our Next Energy (ONE), a Michigan-based energy storage technology company, has entered into an agreement with the State of West Virginia to locate its Aries Grid battery storage system manufacturing facility in Ravenswood, at the Berkshire Hathaway Energy Renewables (BHE Renewables) microgrid business site. ONE will use a 40,000 s more PR

JEFFERSON, West Virginia, March 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2023: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today traveled to the Eastern Panhandle for a facility tour, and to receive an update on several Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) projects she supported. First, Senator Capito visited the Rockwool Manufacturing plant where she met with staff, toured the facility, and learned more about the production process. The plant employs approximately 150 people, most of w more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release and letter: Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Republican Leader Senator John Boozman (R-AR) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack requesting an extension of the review period for the proposed rule, "Child Nutrition Programs: Revisions to Meal Patterns Consistent Wi more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined Senators Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bob Casey (D-PA), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), and John Fetterman (D-PA) in urging the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to evaluate the adequacy of black lung benefits to meet the income and health care needs of disabled miners and their families. In a letter to Comptroller General of the United States Gene L. Dodaro, the Senators explained th more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $17,424,327 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) for the state of West Virginia. The funding will support restoring and protecting forest and aquatic habitats, as well as expanding outdoor recreation opportunities and education programs. "West Virginia is blessed with beautiful public land more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, March 4 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, joined BHE Renewables, Precision Castparts Corp. (PCC), Our Next Energy, Inc. (ONE), and state leaders to break ground on a $500,000,000 manufacturing site to be built on more than 2,000 acres of land in Jackson County, West Virginia. As part of this investment in West Virginia, PCC subsidiary Titanium Metals Corporation, Inc. (TIMET) has anno more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) led a group of seven Senators in urging Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro to conduct a study to evaluate the adequacy of current black lung benefits in meeting income and healthcare needs of disabled miners and their families. The study is critical to informing policy aimed at supporting coal miners and their families in West Virginia and across Appalachia. "Coal workers'  more PR

MILTON, West Virginia, March 3 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, visited Milton to celebrate the $190.7 million investment from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for the Lower Mud River Flood Risk Management project. Senator Manchin secured this funding as part of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 omnibus and wrote a letter of support for the project earlier last year. Senator Manchin joined more than twenty loc more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Gerald "Gerry" Connolly, D-Virginia, issued the following news and letter: Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Democrats on the Committee on Oversight and Accountability in sending a letter to Alan Shaw, CEO of Norfolk Southern, the owner and operator of the derailed train in East Palestine, Ohio, demanding answers and information on its role in, and response to, the February 3, 2023, train derailment and calling on him to make the victims of the derailment whole. The letter follows Committee Republicans' refusal  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2023: Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) joined state leaders and top executives on Saturday, March 4th in a groundbreaking ceremony for Berkshire Hathaway Energy (BHE) Renewables developing a first-of-its-kind solar energy microgrid-powered industrial site in Ravenswood, West Virginia. The new plant, which will operate under the PCC subsidiary Titanium Metals Corporation, Inc. (TIMET) and will collaborate with Our Next Energy for large-scal more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2023: Several Virginia colleges and universities -- including George Mason University, Northern Virginia Community College, Germanna Community College, and the University of Mary Washington -- today are backing U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger's bipartisan bill to increase transparency in the federal student loan process. Spanberger's Student Loan Disclosure Transparency Act would give Virginia students additional tools to understan more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), joined by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-VA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bob Casey (D-PA), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), and John Fetterman (D-PA), urged the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to evaluate the adequacy of black lung benefits to meet the income and health care needs of disabled miners and their families. In a letter to Comptroller General of the United States Gene L. Dodaro, the Senators explaine more PR