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PARKERSBURG — The 11th District incumbent for the West Virginia House of Delegates has raised the most contributions from April 1 to April 29 among local legi
Solar advocate-backed bills that would codify community solar and net metering measures aimed at benefiting participants who look to lower their electric bills have stalled in the West Virginia legislative session. Energy bills favoring utilities, meanwhile, have advanced.
The West Virginia Legislature is showing little sign through a quarter of the 2023 state regular legislative session of strengthening air quality and other environmental protections in a state of high concentrations of air pollution from chemical, gas and oil infrastructure. Instead, a bill introduced by House Energy and Manufacturing Committee Chair Bill Anderson, R-Wood, would keep the state Department of Environmental Protection from using community air monitoring data for regulatory purposes.
The state House Energy and Manufacturing Committee on, on Jan. 16, 2024, approved House Bill 4292, which would set a penalty for nonpayment of royalties under oil and natural gas leases during production from conventional vertical wells, making drillers liable for three times the market value of the extracted minerals for which payment is due.