Phillips has led the agency as acting director for the past year

CHARLESTON, W.Va -Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin announced today that he appointed C.A. Phillips to the position of director of the Office of Miners Safety Health and Training.

"Because of his extensive experience with the mining industry and his dedication to the health and safety of West Virginia miners, I believe C.A. is the right man for the job," said Gov. Tomblin. "C.A. is well versed in the needs and protection of miners and I am pleased that he has accepted the position permanently."

West Virginia University revealed details of a new team walk which will take place before each home football game this season. It will make its debut before the Friends of Coal Bowl Sunday, Sept. 4.

MORGANTOWN -- The inaugural West Virginia football Mountaineer Mantrip, a team walk set to rally WVU fans before each home game this season, will make its debut Sunday, Sept. 4, according to a news release from WVU officials. The Friends of Coal Bowl will pit the Mountaineers against Marshall at 3:30 p.m. at Milan Puskar Stadium. 

The walk is a tribute to West Virginia's coal industry. A mantrip is the shuttle that typically transports miners down into an underground mine at the start of their shift. 

The Mountaineer Mantrip will begin when the football team is dropped off approximately two hours and 20 minutes before kickoff at the corner of the WVU Medical Center and Don Nehlen Drive. 
Fans are encouraged to create a path, which will take the team and coaching staff, led by head coach Dana Holgorsen, through the blue and light blue lots and to the entrance of the Northeast gate at Milan Puskar Stadium.

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By PAMELA BRUST (pbrust@newsandsentinel.com)
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Courthouse security funds approved

PARKERSBURG - The West Virginia Coal Association will offer an informational session at 11 a.m. Monday before the Wood County Commission.
The meeting is scheduled for the commission office on the second floor of the courthouse. If necessary, the event may be moved to the Fort Boreman public meeting room in the Judge Black Courthouse Annex.
On Aug. 22, the commission sponsored, on request of Commissioner Wayne Dunn, an informational presentation on mountaintop coal removal, with guest speaker Vivian Stockman, outreach coordinator with the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, based in Huntington. County officials said they were contacted this week by the coal association with a request for a meeting.

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The radical "green" community apparently can only agree on one thing -- getting rid of American jobs.  According to them, coal, oil and natural gas are all dirty "fossil fuels." They don't like hydro because you can't dam up a river, it might prevent a fish from getting to its spawning ground and now you can't even generate wind energy. So what IS their prescription for America's economic future? 

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Staff Report , Parkersburg News and Sentinel

PARKERSBURG - Congressmen from West Virginia are riled over a representative's comments criticizing coal.
Rep. John Conyers, a Democrat from Michigan, said there was no such thing as clean coal and workers dependent on coal mining in West Virginia should find other work. Conyers, who has been in Congress about 50 years, spoke Wednesday on behalf of Lisa Jackson, director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency which has attempted to curtail coal usage through administrative rules, at the EPA's 2011 Environmental Justice Conference in Detroit.

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