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Staffing Cuts At National Parks And Rising Energy Demands Drive Up Prices, This West Virginia Morning

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On this West Virginia Morning, the Trump administration has cut staff by more than 24 percent at the National Park Service since January, and Republicans in Congress are proposing more. From the Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, Derek Parham of WKYU reports that visitors are feeling the impacts nationwide – and at home, in parks like Mammoth Cave and Great Smoky Mountains.

And the latest from The Allegheny Front, a public radio program based in Pittsburgh that reports on environmental issues in the region, is about the demand for energy and the rising costs within the PJM electrical grid that West Virginia is a part of.

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Eric Douglas produced this episode.

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