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West Virginia’s Congressional delegation and governor are reaching out to President Donald Trump to seek help for those in need after deadly flash flooding in the Mountain State.

West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey announced Friday afternoon that he had made a formal request for a major disaster declaration and an emergency declaration for Ohio and Marion counties in the state. According to the governor, if the major disaster declaration is awarded, FEMA’s individual assistance program can provide homeowners and renters with financial aid, and an emergency declaration for public assistance would allow for supplemental financial assistance for local governments and state agencies.

After traveling to both Ohio and Marion counties and assessing the damage firsthand, I have asked President Donald Trump for a Major Disaster Declaration and an Emergency Declaration,” said Morrisey. “These declarations will help unlock federal resources to support our fellow West Virginians hardest hit by the major flooding events earlier this week.”

Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Jim Justice (R-W.Va.) and Representatives Carol Miller (R-W.Va.) and Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) all signed a letter addressed to the president and FEMA Region III Acting Regional Administrator Lilian Hutchinson, asking the president to proclaim that major disaster declaration. While Hutchinson is listed as an additional addressee of the letter, only President Trump has the authority to make a major disaster declaration.

Conservatives on social media rejoiced on social media Wednesday after the Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law banning gender-transition treatments for adolescents.

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that Tennessee's Senate Bill 1, which "prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow 'a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex' or to treat 'purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity,'" does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

Conservatives on social media, who viewed the ruling as a win for parents' rights, quickly praised the court ruling.

"Awesome news!" GOP Rep. Riley Moore posted on X. "States absolutely can and should be able to protect children from chemical or surgical castration."

Congressman Riley Moore toured the damage in Ohio County following the recent deadly flash floods. 

Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin announced Wednesday that the agency would aim to undo former President Joe Biden’s regulations limiting carbon and toxic emissions from fossil fuel power plants, a major deregulatory undertaking that would undo one of the most significant policies addressing climate change.

“Both proposed rules, if finalized, would deliver savings to American families on electricity bills, and it will ensure that they have the electricity that they need today,” Zeldin said at a press conference on Wednesday. “EPA is taking an important step, reclaiming sanity and sound policy, illustrating that we can both protect the environment and grow the economy.” 

The rules in question were finalized last April by the Biden administration. They set a series of standards for fossil fuel power plants, requiring new and existing plants to reduce carbon pollution by installing carbon capture, sequestration, and storage technology to limit the release of other toxic substances, such as mercury.

Zeldin argued that the Biden standards sought to regulate coal, oil, and gas out of existence.