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Lawmakers allocate over $250M in special session

By Bobby Bordelon | The West Virginia Daily News Jun 27, 2021 6 hrs ago West Virginia House Speaker Roger Hanshaw gavels out of the June Special Session of the legislature on June 24. Photo by Perry Bennett/W.Va. Legislative Photography CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice called the West Virginia Legislature into session on Thursday and requested $250 million be allocated throughout the state government, including to education, tourism, and more. “The special session call requests that the Legislature consider over $250 million in supplementary appropriations that Gov. Justice has divided into over 20 different initiatives, among other considerations. …. A few of those initiatives include upgrades and expansions to several West Virginia State Parks, upgrades to the Elk River Trail, allocating initial funding to the Economic Development Authority’s Closing Fund, upgrades to correctional facilities, replenishing the

Other editors: Better answers needed on Kanawha Valley cancer risk

The Charleston Gazette-Mail published this editorial on June 22: There are many industrial sites in the rustbelt — especially in Appalachia — where the dark joke goes “You get cancer just driving by that place.” Data from two Union Carbide facilities in Kanawha County — one in Institute and one in South Charleston — show an increase in fugitive ethylene oxide emissions over the past decade. Overall, emissions of the chemical byproduct — which was declared a carcinogen in 2018 — are down since 2014, but the rise in “fugitive” emissions means more ethylene oxide is getting into the air through leaks or other malfunctions at the plants, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. And, overall, emissions at the South Charleston plant tripled from 2009 to 2019.

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