America is stuck in a perpetual permitting crisis. It inhibits our ability to deliver the critical infrastructure our country needs to remain competitive in a rapidly changing world. There is growing bipartisan recognition that to rebuild and modernize our infrastructure and supply chains ...

Over the past week I wrote a couple of articles looking at spending by lobbyists and on lobbyists when it comes to the West Virginia Legislature. I think I was fair in both pieces. The goal wasn’t to cast aspersions on any particular lobbyist or even say their actions were bad. It was ...

Throughout our state’s 160-year history, the coal industry has been a major driver behind West Virginia’s economy, and billions of dollars of new investment will ensure that similar benefits are generated for the next 160 years. Despite all the hype you hear about a zero-carbon economy ...

Unbalanced trade agreements, lack of redundancy and reliance on foreign energy markets brought many of our industrial sectors to a screeching halt when supply chains bottlenecked due to COVID-19 restrictions. The pandemic highlighted several flaws within the U.S. economy that resulted in ...

While not a Presidential election year, 2024 hopefuls are spending the summer of 2023 promoting policy solutions to win the hearts and minds of Americans across the country. Energy — and our country’s strategic advantage as the world’s largest natural gas and oil producer — remains a ...

I won’t rehash what I wrote about over the weekend on West Virginia University’s financial issues. Needless to say, fixing WVU’s issues by restoring its state funding to fiscal year 2013 levels doesn’t appear to be the solution. Declining student enrollment for more than a decade, a ...