Getting the Most Energy Efficiency Bang for Your Buck in Virginia
Virginia residents experience incredibly diverse weather. With temperatures averaging at 28 degrees during the coldest months and reaching 90 degrees or more during the summer, ho ...
Read More »Support Economic Development and Clean Energy in Virginia
The Virginia Coastal Protection Act is a piece of state legislation that will not only bring cleaner energy to Virginia, but has the potential to bring much-needed income and jobs ...
Read More »Care for Our Earth: Food Safety
Few of us have given any consideration to where our food comes from or the processes our food endures to reach our tables. We are for the most part ignorant and disconnected rega ...
Read More »Bipartisan Climate Bill Would Invest Record $75 Million Per Year Into Energy-Saving Solutions for Virginia Families
RICHMOND—Senator Donald McEachin and Delegate Ron Villanueva joined consumer advocates at the Capitol in Richmond today to outline how their landmark bipartisan bill will help low ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 issu ...
Read More »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 lon ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »State and Regional Groups Push for Stronger Virginia Fracking Protections
Richmond, VA – Today, four environmental and public interest organizations joined forces to call on Governor Terry McAuliffe to conduct a comprehensive review of the state’s safeg ...
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