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The increasing market share of the natural gas in our electricity mix has translated into great need for expanding energy infrastructure in the United States, particularly our pipelines.

Thank you very much for being here with us and we appreciate in West Virginia, Senator Manchin is here, we enjoy our national forest, that is for sure.

Another issue for us in the State is opioid and opioid use. And we have the highest rate of deaths resulted from overdose than any other State in the Union.

The athletes are sort of throw-aways.

As everything becomes more and more public, I think this is something that is probably going to be more pervasive than what we really know at this point.

I'm thinking maybe this is an avenue to improve the situation.

It becomes part of the system is what you're saying.

I hope that it will become moving forward that you equip the psychologists with that kind of--yes, did you want to say something?

Thank you for the hearing and thank all of you. Your stories are very compelling.

But in order to keep them viable and growing, you have to make sure that we are taking care of communities at the same time.

I think it comes to another, a bigger, question really probably throughout the Park System is that your communities that are supportive of the Park System, many times are small communities because you are in rural areas, you are in outdoor…

Over the past 8 years on this committee, we've heard a lot of comments in hearings about the--our aging coal and nuclear fleet.

I've got a power plant in Pleasants County, West Virginia. It's a 1,300 megawatt--1.3 gigawatts of power.

I applaud you for these grants, and I urge you to bring one of those pilot programs to West Virginia.

I can guarantee you, the black lung disease will continue to increase. This is the only way we had to fight that and to try to stop it.

It is very disturbing because the President has proposed cutting this $45 million from Special Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners.

The other thing we have is the Dislocated Worker Grants to help fight the opioid epidemic, and you know it is just a horrible tragedy on our country.

The visits to West Virginia and going underground, I think, does really make you realize what a tough job coalmining is.