West
Virginia Chamber of Commerce President Steve Roberts said there have been two
common themes during the Chamber’s listening tour this week in the state’s
eastern panhandle. The comments have focused on new EPA rules and the “drug
epidemic.”
Roberts
said dozens of business owners are concerned about those EPA rules announced
earlier this month for existing coal-fired power plants.
“Virtually
everybody we have talked to have been doing some head shaking saying, ‘Ya know
these regulations are not going to help they’re going to hurt,’” Roberts said.
The
other common comment this week was on the drug issue impacting the state’s
workforce.
“There’s
more and more of a recognition that some of what we’ve been doing hasn’t been
working and we need to try some new things, some different things when it comes
to the drug epidemic,” Roberts said.
Employers
in the eastern panhandle and across West
Virginia
“We
hear it every place we go,” Roberts said.
Roberts and other Chamber
members traveled from the eastern panhandle to Washington , D.C.
