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Meeting—and Exceeding—the Clean Power Plan in Virginia (2016)

Meeting—and Exceeding—the Clean Power Plan in Virginia (2016)

Published by the Union of Concerned Scientists. The Clean Power Plan (CPP) sets the nation’s first-ever limits on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power plants—the largest contributor to U.S. globa ...

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Corporations Avoid Doing Their Part

Corporations Avoid Doing Their Part

Originally published in The Virginian-Pilot. Duke Energy may have set a new record for bad corporate behavior — it polluted a river while dodging its taxes. Duke was fined more than 100 million dollar ...

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Study: Medicaid Coverage For Virginia Parents Would Help Children

Study: Medicaid Coverage For Virginia Parents Would Help Children

Published by Public News Service RICHMOND, Va. - By not expanding Medicaid to cover working poor adults, Virginia also is shortchanging thousands of children, according to a new study. Georgetown rese ...

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Group Goes Solar to ‘Lead by Example’

Group Goes Solar to ‘Lead by Example’

Written and published by VA SUN. Virginia Organizing has a long history of working with Virginians to make positive changes in the Commonwealth. It has worked on a variety of issues, including buildin ...

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Families Can’t Wait

Families Can’t Wait

Click here to see how much wealth is stripped from our communities by payday and car title loans since March 2015. Every day, payday and car title lenders drain $23,951,459 out of the pockets of hard- ...

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Interpretation and Health Care

Interpretation and Health Care

Some of our leaders found these videos and webinars from a VRI company, Stratus Video, in Florida. The webinars are very informative and inclusive of all perspectives- patient, provider, and managemen ...

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Meghan McNamara | Organizing Co-Director

Meghan McNamara | Organizing Co-Director

Meghan McNamara is a community and labor organizer who joined Virginia Organizing in January 2016 and became the Co-Director of Organizing in 2024. Prior to joining the organization, Meghan worked on ...

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Letter to the Editor: Deaf patients need special care

Letter to the Editor: Deaf patients need special care

Originally published in the NewsLeader For the past year I have followed the progress of House Bill 1956 regarding effective communication for deaf and hard-of-hearing patients in Virginia. I personal ...

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Care for our Earth: Preventing Water Scarcity

Care for our Earth: Preventing Water Scarcity

How careful are we in our use of one of the Earth's most precious resource, water? If we were to experience a high category hurricane where our drinkable water supply would no longer be healthy, we wo ...

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Most of those without Medicaid are the working poor

Most of those without Medicaid are the working poor

Published in USA Today They toil in America’s fast-food restaurants, call centers and retail stores — yet as many as five million Americans remain not only poor but also uninsured, despite an array of ...

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