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
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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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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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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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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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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Building Power, Changing Lives: The Story of Virginia Organizing Introduction
This is an excerpt from Building Power, Changing Lives: The Story of Virginia Organizing. Click here to order your copy today! In the mid-1990s, Denise Smith was living in Southwe ...
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Supporting Green Products with Our Purchases
Do we realize that our purchases shape the world? When a dollar leaves our hands, it goes to work, work that can support life and wellbeing or degradation and destruction! Even th ...
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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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Water Conservation and Dishware
There are many ways to save water in our everyday lives. One great and unexpected way to conserve comes from the dishware we use! Reusable dishware is more sustainable than disp ...
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