An entire county school system in coal-producing West Virginia is going solar. The project in Wayne County Schools represents what a developer and U.S. Sen.

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    10 months ago

    Something Hillary Clinton suggested they do back in 2016 and with her backing of federal funding to pay for all of it and for free training of the people living there for the new job position of solar engineers.

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    10 months ago

    You know, whenever I see articles about West Virginia from big media companies, they still are obsessed about coal. Little do they know most of our money comes from natural gas now.

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      10 months ago

      Awful hard to write a good song about natural gas. Can you imagine Dolly singing about being a gas well worker’s daughter?