JULIAN — A former coal mining site straddling Boone and Lincoln counties will provide 3,000 acres for what investors and organizers say will be West Virginia’s largest solar farm.
Angie Rosser smiled while addressing a hundred West Virginia climate advocates huddled together on a rainy afternoon in Charleston Saturday. "I haven't seen Senator Manchin show up just yet," Rosser said. "We're still waiting." The senator still isn't with them. Not yet, anyway.
CANNELTON - Bullpush Mountain isn't a mountain anymore. It's a flat, grassy meadow that stands out among the wooded hills along the Fayette-Kanawha County line.More than 25 years ago, Cannelton
When it comes to the state economy, tourism has always been something West Virginia could point to as a plus, aside from the state's heavy reliance on extraction industries like coal and natural gas.
For decades, Arnold and Mary Richards collected monthly royalty checks — most recently from $1,000 to $1,500 — for the natural gas sucked up from beneath their West Virginia farm by small, old wells.
