West Virginia

16 states file suit challenging pause on LNG export permits

Led by Louisiana General Attorney General Liz Murrill, the attorneys general of 16 states have filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Louisiana challenging the pause on pending approvals of LNG export projects announced by the Biden administration in January.

Attorney General Murrill calls that move an “unlawful decision to ban new liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.”

The State of Louisiana is joined in the suit by the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida,...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/16-states-file-suit-challenging-pause-on-lng-export-permits/

FreightWaves Classics/Fallen Flags: The Virginian Railway profitably hauled coal 

A Virginian Railway freight train. (Photo: The Virginian Railway Facebook page)

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The Virginian Railway was a fairly small railroad (its main line was less than 500 miles), but it was built to extremely high standards and it “operated with precision-like efficiency” hauling coal as a competitor to the much larger Norfolk & Western Railway (N&W).  

The Virginian Railway's logo. (Image: The Virginian Railway's Facebook page)The Virginian...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classicsfallen-flags-the-virginian-railway-profitably-hauled-coal

America’s best roads for truckers (weather permitting)

Tractor-trailer heading down a stretch of I-70 in Colorado.

Professional truckers who spend their lives traveling America’s 4 million miles of roads try to avoid certain roads when they know the weather will be nasty. But when Mother Nature is nice, many drivers look forward to these and other stretches of highway for their beautiful views. These are some of their favorites, in no particular order.

Beartooth Scenic Highway, Montana. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Any westbound route from Montana to Idaho

Barring heavy snowfall or dangerous wind gusts, driving from...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/americas-best-roads-for-truckers-weather-permitting

OmniTRAX’s Winchester and Western readies commercial development sites in West Virginia

A photograph of a train locomotive. There are trees behind the train.

OmniTRAX is seeking companies that would be interested in developing commercial facilities at six potential sites along the West Virginia branch of the Winchester & Western Railroad (WW).

OmniTRAX, a short line operator and affiliate of The Broe Group, worked with the Berkeley County Development Authority in West Virginia to identify sites that could be developed as rail-served manufacturing, food and beverage processing, and distribution facilities. The six initial sites are part of OmniTRAX’s r...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/omnitraxs-winchester-and-western-readies-commercial-development-sites-in-west-virginia

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