BOONE, North Carolina, Jan. 8 (TNSPol) -- Appalachian Voices issued the following news release: On Wednesday, Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin announced his intention to appoint former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator and coal industry lobbyist Andrew Wheeler as Virginia's next Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources. While at EPA, Wheeler led a well-documented assault on environmental protections, aligning his agenda with the priorities of some of the country's biggest polluter  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Jan. 8 (TNSRep) -- Appalachian Voices issued the following news release on Jan. 7, 2022: This morning, advocates for miners with black lung and their families released a new report outlining the critically important impacts of the black lung excise tax and the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund in West Virginia. The report comes days after the excise tax rate was slashed due to Congressional inaction, gutting funding for the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund that support  more

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Jan. 6 -- The Minerals Council South Africa issued the following news release: The Minerals Council South Africa endorses, and urges, the speedy implementation of the recommendations made in the first of three reports by the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture to prevent endemic and corrosive corruption in organs of the State and within the private sector. The Minerals Council's members have, like the rest of the country's citizens and businesses, endured the c  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 -- Rep. A. Donald McEachin, D-Virginia, issued the following news release on Jan. 7, 2022: Congressman A. Donald McEachin (VA-04) urged Majority Leader Richard L. Saslaw, Minority Leader Thomas K. Norment, Jr., and all Virginia State Senators to oppose Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin's nomination of Andrew Wheeler as Virginia's Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources. "At the Environmental Protection Agency, Mr. Wheeler sought to minimize the impacts of pollution in the ru  more