Category: LWVWV
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TELL CONGRESS: Don’t Go Backwards on Health Care Reform!
In the next few days, the House is scheduled to vote on repealing the Affordable Care Act, the comprehensive health care reform law passed by the last Congress and signed into law by President Obama. The Affordable Care Act is a major step forward in health care for all. It has already made a difference…
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Urge Lawmakers to Pass Marcellus Shale Drilling Bill Out of Subcommittee
Last month the Joint Legislative Interim Judiciary Subcommittee A introduced a draft bill establishing a new regulatory program for gas wells utilizing horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. While the bill is aimed at regulating the Marcellus Shale gas well drilling occurring now in West Virginia, it would apply to all drilling using these new drilling…
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Pittsburgh Bans Natural Gas Drilling
Adopts first-in-the-nation ordinance – elevates the right of the community to decide, not corporations