W.Va. team awaits data from newly launched satellite
By The Associated Press ... February 24, 2009 ... Charleston Daily Mail

FAIRMONT, W.Va. -- Most people don't even know it's there, but some West Virginia engineers and software developers are keeping close watch on a newly launched satellite they helped design.

Global Science & Technology Inc. helped design, develop and test NOAA-19, an environmental satellite the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launched earlier this month.

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Crime Fighters and Students Work to Improve Internet Safety
By Bob Westfall ... February 24, 2009 ... WTRF

The West Virginia Department of Education is teaming up with Gov. Joe Manchin and Verizon to take a “byte” out of Internet crime during the West Virginia Cyber Safe Summit on Tuesday at the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences.

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Funds From Economic Recovery Plan Come To West Virginia
Senator Rockefeller Speaks out on stimulus bill
February 17, 2009 ... WTRF

WASHINGTON, DC -- Senator Jay Rockefeller today applauded President Obama for signing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law and highlighted significant wins for West Virginia.

Rockefeller successfully fought to include in the final plan assistance for families and the unemployed, funding for school construction, investments in advanced coal technologies, and grants for high-speed Internet deployment and community health centers.

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More Than $1.6 Billion in Stimulus Funds Directed to West Virginia
Infrastructure funding should save or create as many as 20,000 jobs in West Virginia, Rockefeller says.
By Walt Williams ... WVNS ... February 18, 2009

CHARLESTON -- More than $1.6 billion in federal money is on the way to West Virginia through an economic stimulus bill signed by President Obama Feb. 17, with one elected official saying the money will save or create 20,000 jobs in the Mountain State.

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Committee considers repealing ban on nuclear plants
By Erica Peterson ... February 18, 2009 ... WVPubcast

On Wednesday in the Senate, lawmakers debated whether West Virginia should make it easier for nuclear power plants to be built in the state.

Right now, coal provides most of West Virginia’s energy. But in the future, who knows?

In the Energy, Industry and Mining committee, the bulk of the discussion focused on a controversial bill which would repeal a ban on nuclear power in the state of West Virginia.

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Unisys Hiring for Local Expansion
Fifteen workers needed immediately
By Jack Kane ... February 18, 2009 ... WOWK

CHARLESTON -- Governor Joe Manchin joined Unisys Corporation president Teresa DiMarco in announcing the expansion of the company's Charleston operation. According to DiMarco, Unisys is looking for 15 people to process Medicaid claims in West Virginia and surrounding states.

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Coal slurry research may help W.Va. community
By Caleb Fleming ... February 17, 2009 ... Collegiate Times

Virginia Tech scientists have developed a technology that removes water from coal slurry ponds, lowering the amount of toxic waste potentially seeping into the water table and poisoning wells.

Mining and mineral engineering professor Roe-Hoan Yoon has been researching technologies relating to slurry for 30 years, beginning when he first came to Tech.

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Top 5 Myths About Coal
By Tara Lohan ... February 17, 2009 ... HuffingtonPost.com

The facts are pretty simple, the U.S. Department of Energy said: "Burning coal is the dirtiest way we produce electricity." And yet oddly the Obama administration, which has embraced climate legislation and green jobs, is a supporter of the oxymoronic "clean coal." The White House Web site proclaims that one of Obama's priorities is to, "develop and deploy clean coal technology."

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Funds From Economic Recovery Plan Come To West Virginia
Senator Rockefeller Speaks out on stimulus bill
February 17, 2009 ... WTRF

WASHINGTON, DC -- Senator Jay Rockefeller today applauded President Obama for signing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law and highlighted significant wins for West Virginia.

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Siemens, First Reserve steam ahead in West Virginia coal plant
February 13, 2009 ... The Stamford Advocate

A Greenwich-based private equity energy investment firm has a new partner in a $1.8 billion project to build an advanced coal burning power plant in West Virginia.

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Local delegation offers reaction to governor’s speecht
We need to be very frugal with our dollars
By Mallory Panuska ... February 12, 2009 ... Times West Virginian

FAIRMONT — An assembly of debate-worthy political issues was the meat of Gov. Joe Manchin’s State of the State address delivered Wednesday at the Capital.

Marion County-area lawmakers, who included Sen. Mike Oliverio, House Majority Whip Mike Caputo, and Delegates Tim Manchin and Linda Longstreth, gave their reactions to some of the issues the governor addressed in his nearly 50-minute speech.

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Manchin pushes alternative energy, longer school year
By Erica Peterson/Scott Finn ... February 12, 2009 ... WV Pubcast

Wednesday night, Gov. Joe Manchin gave the first State of the State address of his second term.

He has big goals in energy, health care and education, but the economic recession is forcing him to scale some of them back.

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Broadband Tax Credit Cut From Stimulus Bill
By Saul Hansell ... February 11, 2009 ... NY Times Blog

It looks like the tax credit for companies that install new broadband service was cut from the latest version of the economic stimulus bill. The bill still would award more than $6 billion in grants to help build high-speed Internet service, mainly in rural areas.

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