Senate Finance panel approves steel bill as alternative to quotas
The Senate Finance Committee backed a bill aimed at countering global steel overcapacity, 16 to 3, as critics call it weak. Leaders say it targets long term competition while opponents urge stronger sanctions to curb cheap imports from Japan and others. Weirton Steel posts 41.5 million losses in Q1 1999 amid rising imports.
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Ashington
U.S
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
William Roth
R-Del
Mittee
Sis
Jay Rockefeller
Senate Steel Caucus
Rockefeller
House
Japan
Russia
Weirton Steel
West Virginia
U.S. International Trade Commission
Inmate Call Center Eyed For West Virginia Tourism
Charleston officials discuss using female inmates at a new women s prison in Lakin to answer the 800 CALL WV A hotline. Senate Finance Chair Osher Craigo supports the plan to save operator costs and teach inmates telemarketing skills for post release employment. North Carolina has long used inmates to staff tourism lines.
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Charleston
Lakin
Senate
Osher Craigo
D-Putnam
Craigo
Alisa Bailey
North Carolina
Carol Caldwell
North Carolina Correctional Institution For Women
Timber firm donates Lindy Point to West Virginia
Allegheny Wood Products announces donation of Lindy Point five acres in Tucker County and 50 additional acres around it to the state. The package includes land around Backwater Falls State Park with an access road and adjacent acreage, plus a five year first right of refusal on 130 more acres on the Backwater Canyon rim. Cordie Hudkins, parks chief, calls the site unique and deserving of public ownership.
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Charleston
Lindy Point
Tucker County
West Virginia
Allegheny Wood Products
Backwater Falls State Park
Backwater Canyon
Canyon
Cordie Hudkins
Hudkins
Virginia Accepts Rising Inbound Trash Totals
Virginia landfills accepted 4.6 million tons of out of state waste in 1998, up from 3.2 million the year before, according to the state Department of Environmental Quality. Two groups say seven large private landfills handled nearly 4 million tons, prompting calls for national action.
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Richmond
Virginia
State Department of Environmental Quality
DEQ
Campaign Virginia
Virginians For Sensible Waste Management
Jim Sharp
Campaign
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