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Virginia Organizing is a member of the Climate Equity Working Group and the Virginia Environmental Justice Collaborative.

Care for Our Earth: Food Safety

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 ...

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Bipartisan Climate Bill Would Invest Record $75 Million Per Year Into Energy-Saving Solutions for Virginia Families

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 ...

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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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Help fight for clean energy!

Help fight for clean energy!

Virginia Organizing is partnering with groups to hold 10 events across the state on April 2 to take a stand in support of a bold clean power plan for Virginia. If you live in or c ...

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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 issu ...

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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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State and Regional Groups Push for Stronger Virginia Fracking Protections

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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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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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 lon ...

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John Kerry Warns Climate Change is a National Security Risk

John Kerry Warns Climate Change is a National Security Risk

Originally posted in The Daily Press. Ahead of high-stakes climate change talks in Paris, Secretary of State John Kerry warned Tuesday of increasing and grim national security ris ...

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