Beth Ann Bossio

The true beauty of this photo is what these cones will bring to families and our earth in the future. Inside the cones are seeds that will sow to grow up to be your future Christmas Tree and keep large tracts of spaces green across North America. #CanaanFir #ConeHarvest

Reports like this one expose the hollowness of the White House pledge that data center developers will pay their own way. West Virginians will also get hammered by another NextEra transmission line. local21news.com/news/local/220…

NextEra is building the Mid-Atlantic Resiliency Link transmission line through West Virginia, but has no customers in the state. WV customers will be charged $572 million—more than three times our 2025 estimate—for a project that will not benefit them. hubs.li/Q0487tlr0

West Virginia costs for transmission infrastructure to power data centers soar @ieefa_institute ieefa.org/resources/west…

NextEra Energy’s portion of the Mid-Atlantic Resiliency Link jumped from $441M to a staggering $960M. The line is set to power data centers in Virginia, but it still needs the green light from state regulators. 👇 Full story in comments! #wvnews #WestVirginia #EnergyNews

Attorney Clint Barkdoll warned, "the Supreme Court does not have to hear anything. So what Dave Sunday, the attorney general, has done, He's filed what's called a writ of certiorari to the US Supreme Court. This is merely a request for them to hear this case." 💻tristatealert.com/where-does-fra…

West Virginia, take note. This is what a well-funded Office of Consumer Advocate and engaged elected officials will do for their constituents. “NextEra Energy has taken further steps to advance its Mid-Atlantic Resiliency Link.”

The WV Public Service Commission has officially granted "intervenor status" to local governments and grassroots groups. This allows residents to formally challenge the proposed high-voltage line. 👇 Full details in the comments! #WVNews #WestVirginia #Energy #EasternPanhandle

Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., has had a tremendous influence over the electric rates West Virginians pay via his appointments to the state Public Service Commission. wvgazettemail.com/news/politics/…

Jury weighs fate of ex-FirstEnergy execs, five years after FBI raid of Ohio official’s home “In this country ... nobody should be able to buy political favor or pay for policies that tilt the system in their favor." - Asst. Ohio Attorney General signalohio.org/jury-weighs-fa…

This is powerful reporting on Saturday night’s Raylee’s Law debate by a real reporter with a name; not an anonymous website that can’t decide whether it’s satire site, a gossip site, or a real news site. westvirginiawatch.com/2026/03/17/wv-…

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize. Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness. Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding. He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history. The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future. A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite. That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

In a flurry of chaos and fiery debate, the House passed a version of Raylee’s Law Saturday night at 11:59 p.m., giving the Senate no time to agree by midnight deadline. “I’ve never seen a fight to protect child abusers,” said Sen. Ryan Weld, R-Brooke. westvirginiawatch.com/2026/03/15/dis…

Refuse to Concur - HB 4012 - Relating to reducing the regulatory burden on utility companies when constructing and maintaining electric power generation and transmission facilities within this state - wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bi…

The House also rejected Senate changes to HB 4012, relating to reducing the regulatory burden on utility companies when constructing and maintaining electric power generation and transmission facilities within this state.

We know who pays for new transmission. We all do. In PJM, data center growth creates reliability problems that PJM solves with new transmission. Using methods written by the utilities, PJM bills all utilities for new lines, who then bill us.

“Which brings us to this point: investor-owned electric utilities don’t grow by selling more electricity; they grow by building more infrastructure.”

Not funding special education is not just cruel, it's fiscally irresponsible wvpolicy.org/west-virginias…

After a PUCO ruling allowed FirstEnergy to charge customers billions to buy power from FirstEnergy Solutions, the PUCO chief of staff went to Char Bar until close with FirstEnergy CEO + lobbyists to celebrate “I recall all of them being happy.” signalohio.org/former-top-ohi…

PSC staff file first thoughts on MARL “Staff recommends the level of protests received be considered substantial, and the commission schedule both an evidentiary and public comment hearings in this case.” dominionpost.com/2026/03/09/psc…

A mere 2 days after Big Tech signed the Ratepayer Protection Pledge promising to pay their fair share of transmission costs, FERC upheld a policy allowing AEP utilities make data center transmission upgrades in one state and make ratepayers in other states pay for most of it.