West Virginia

"Enabling President's Unhinged, Unstable, and Deranged Acts": GOP Blocks Measure Urging Pence to Invoke 25th Amendment

Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.) and members of the House Freedom Caucus conduct a news conference outside the Capitol on Thursday, December 3, 2020.

'The Future Does Not Belong to You,' Climate Campaigners Say to Big Oil After Cancellation of Atlantic Coast Pipeline

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Duke and Dominion did not decide to cancel the Atlantic Coast Pipeline—the people and frontline organizations that led this fight for years forced them into walking away."

'A Battle Cry From Appalachia': Progressive Paula Jean Swearengin Wins US Senate Primary in West Virginia

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Paula Jean Swearengin won West Viriginia's Democratic primary race for a U.S. Senate seat on June 9, 2020.

"This campaign has always been about the movement for a better future," said...

Bolstered by People-Powered 'WV Can't Wait' Campaign, Gubernatorial Hopeful Stephen Smith Proposes First State-Level Wealth Tax

Julia Conley, staff writer

A victory by Smith "would deliver a roadmap for how to organize in rural towns...

After Sanders Says West Virginia Working-Class Base Will Support Bold Vision, Manchin Says His Vote "Wouldn't Be Bernie" in Head-to-Head With Trump

'Absolutely Disgusting': West Virginia Senate Passes Bill That Would Ban Teacher Strikes

Delayed and Over Budget Fracked Gas Pipeline Faces 'Triple Threat,' New Briefing Warns Investors

Flooding State Capitol, West Virginia Teachers Save Public Education From Privatization Scheme

Report on President's Environmental Record 'Reminds Us That Trump Soap Opera Has Dire Real-World Consequences'

Extremist Anti-Choice Laws Pass in Two States While Oregon Voters Reject Attempt to Curb Abortion Rights for Low-Income Women

Women Arrested for Occupying Manchin's Office After Demanding Senator 'Vote with West Virginia Women' and Oppose Kavanaugh

Trump's Coal-Friendly EPA Rule Decried as 'Sheer Reckless Folly' and 'All-Out Assault on Our Climate and Communities'

"You're the One Creating the 'Bad' Schools": Nation's Top Teachers Denounce Devos During Closed-Door Session

Group Beloved by Betsy Devos and Koch Brothers Launches Counter-Attack Against Teacher Rebellion

As Teacher Rebellion Catches Fire, Oklahoma's GOP Governor Dismisses Educators as Spoiled Children

Teacher Rebellion Grows as Tens of Thousands Rally in Oklahoma

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Less Than Tyrannical Feds Fine Freedom Industries Whopping $11,000 For Poisoning Water of 300,000 People, Because Freedom

The over-reaching, over-regulating, money-grubbing feds at OSHA have fined Freedom Industries an exorbitant $11,000 for last January's massive spill of coal cleaning chemicals that left 300,000 West Virginians without safe water, one in five people with health problems and local businesses down about $61 million. Oh yes, and the "clean-up" site is still leaking - twice last month - but Freedom, which has conveniently declared "bankruptcy," says it's only because of "heavy rain" and who could've...