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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 cont ...

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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 th ...

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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 s ...

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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 ...

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Governor McAuliffe Announces Further Reduction on Inmate Phone Call Rates

Governor McAuliffe Announces Further Reduction on Inmate Phone Call Rates

Originally posted by Governor Terry McAuliffe. RICHMOND - Governor Terry McAuliffe today announced that offenders in Virginia’s prisons can now stay in touch with loved ones by wa ...

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Your Federal Student Loans Just Got Easier to REPAYE

Your Federal Student Loans Just Got Easier to REPAYE

This article was published on Homeroom, the official blog of the Department of Education Beginning today, Federal Direct Loan borrowers can take advantage of a new repayment plan: ...

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Danville Police Expand Citizen Complaint Program

Danville Police Expand Citizen Complaint Program

Originally posted on The Danville Register & Bee. Members of both the Danville Police Department and Virginia Organizing announced expansions in availability of citizen compla ...

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Virginia Groups Want Stronger Safeguards on Fracking

Virginia Groups Want Stronger Safeguards on Fracking

Originally published by WSLS. Environmental and public interest groups are urging officials to halt any new fracking efforts in Virginia until they complete a thorough review of t ...

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New Institute for Policy Studies Report Examines Wealth Concentration

New Institute for Policy Studies Report Examines Wealth Concentration

From the Institute for Policy Studies America’s 20 wealthiest people, a group that could fit comfortably in one single Gulfstream G650 luxury jet, now own more wealth than the bot ...

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Amherst County to Revise Ordinance Restricting Felons from Operating Businesses

Amherst County to Revise Ordinance Restricting Felons from Operating Businesses

Originally published in The Amherst New Era Progress. Virginia Organizing leaders in an emerging Chapter in the area have been organizing around this important issue! In response ...

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