West Virginia ranked fifth nationwide in total energy production in 2019, accounting for 5% of the U.S.’s total energy. While riding the waves of the past few years, including a pandemic, global supply chain disruptions and workforce shortages, West Virginians proved their resiliency once again. Despite obstacles decades in the making, advances in technology and the exploration of new opportunities provide excitement within West Virginia’s energy portfolio.
All hours of the day and night, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is gathering terabytes of information from multiple satellites at the West Virginia High Technology Foundation’s I-79 Technology Park. As the data silently streams through the satellites, Jim Estep, High Technology Foundation president and CEO, hears money and opportunity pouring into the Mountain State.
As countries around the world work to repair economies upended by the COVID-19 pandemic, the war between Russia and Ukraine is creating even more difficulties while exacerbating existing issues, including worker shortages; commodity, transportation and inventory disruptions; and the highest inflation rate in a generation in the U.S.
As a representative of a leading coal and gas production state, Congresswoman Carol Miller wants to promote the use of American energy around the world.
Miller is part of the bipartisan Congressional Energy Export Caucus.
The attitude toward well-being in the Mountain State puts health care workers in a trying position—but one of great importance. Countless forward-thinking individuals work to advance both the field and health of West Virginians every day.
In 1965, Congress passed the Appalachian Regional Development Act (ARDA), which declared that the Appalachian region of the U.S., while abundant in natural resources and rich in potential, lags behind the rest of the nation in its economic growth and that its people have not shared properly in the nation’s prosperity.