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Virginia Organizing Celebrates Senate Passage of Inflation Reduction Act, Calls for Vigilance Against Backward Drilling and Pipeline Policies

Virginia Organizing Celebrates Senate Passage of Inflation Reduction Act, Calls for Vigilance Against Backward Drilling and Pipeline Policies

Richmond, Va. — After the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in the U.S. Senate, Virginia Organizing Chairperson Ladelle McWhorter released the following state ...

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Virginia Organizing Calls for Congress to Pass Inflation Reduction Act on 57th Anniversary of Medicaid/Medicare

Virginia Organizing Calls for Congress to Pass Inflation Reduction Act on 57th Anniversary of Medicaid/Medicare

Priorities include spending on climate, lower drug prices, tax enforcement Richmond, Va.—In response to news that the Inflation Reduction Act may pass the Senate, Virginia Organiz ...

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Climate calls us to action

Climate calls us to action

I recently joined the staff of Virginia Organizing in a new position as the Climate Equity Policy Fellow. I hope to work with members statewide to lift up the issue of the climate ...

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Featured Community Partner | Living Energy Institute

Featured Community Partner | Living Energy Institute

Hear me out: houses built out of straw and mud. For everyone. In the near future. Oh, and let’s ditch the electric grid altogether. That is the pitch that Alexis Zeigler at Living ...

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Featured Community Partner | On the Level

Featured Community Partner | On the Level

The climate crisis is an “all hands on deck” kind of thing. We are in a historical moment that requires the political will for a massive collective response that will fundamentall ...

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Center for Sustainable Communities – Featured Community Partner

Center for Sustainable Communities – Featured Community Partner

Addressing the impacts of the climate crisis demands big solutions and big initiatives because the climate crisis is driven by big, systemic human behaviors. Grassroots resistance ...

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Featured Community Partner – Friends of Buckingham

Featured Community Partner – Friends of Buckingham

The citizens of rural Buckingham County are becoming experts on polluting industries, because they are living through a kind of double jeopardy: they helped defeat the Atlantic Co ...

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Featured Community Partner | POWHR

Featured Community Partner | POWHR

It's a place where great beauty and ugliness collide. It's a landscape of forests and mountains that is home to human and more-than-human creatures who have held it as sacred for ...

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Featured Community Partner | AMMD Pine Grove Project

Featured Community Partner | AMMD Pine Grove Project

The AMMD Pine Grove Project is a historic preservation initiative with a mission to “protect, restore, and repurpose the historic Rosenwald Pine Grove Elementary School” located i ...

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Featured Community Partner – Little Bluestem

Featured Community Partner – Little Bluestem

A Visit to Little Bluestem by Eric Olson-Getty, Director of Programs Our day started with a pinch of dried tobacco sprinkled gently on the forest floor. I had never done anything ...

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