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  • Leader of the Month – May 2025

    Leader of the Month – May 2025

    Dreame Boyd - Richmond Chapter Dreame is an active and contributing member to the Richmond Chapter and the statewide Housing Strategy Committee. She has participated in several wor ...

  • Featured Community Partner | Preserve Giles County

    Featured Community Partner | Preserve Giles County

    This month, we are highlighting the Preserve Giles County as our Featured Partner. This article is a repost from September 2022. Preserve Giles County is currently involved with op ...

  • Leader of the Month – April 2025

    Leader of the Month – April 2025

    Terry "Bean" White - Norfolk Chapter Bean has been a member of the Norfolk Chapter for close to a decade, and has been a valuable participant in our local and statewide work. He fi ...

  • Leader of the Month – March 2025

    Leader of the Month – March 2025

    Kimberly Dyke-Harsley - Lynchburg Chapter Kimberly has been a wonderful contributing leader in the Lynchburg Chapter. Her involvement with VO has included giving the chapter accomp ...

Climate change is now affecting birdlife

Climate change is now affecting birdlife

Published by The Daily Progress. As a young birder, I am increasingly disturbed by the effects of climate change, especially on birds. Birders around the country witness the damag ...

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Norfolk family says when it rains, it floods to the point they can’t leave the house

Norfolk family says when it rains, it floods to the point they can’t leave the house

  Published by WKTR (video available) NORFOLK, Va. - The Treadways are treading through water almost every time it rains, just to get in and out of their home. Even if it's j ...

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Gov. McAuliffe is on target with clean energy goals

Gov. McAuliffe is on target with clean energy goals

Published by the Virginian-Pilot. During my time as commander of Air Combat Command headquartered at Langley Air Force Base, I often reflected on my earlier years as a young squad ...

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From the Ashes Film Screening in Norfolk

From the Ashes Film Screening in Norfolk

Please join us on Monday, June 12 for a FREE reception and special screening of From the Ashes at Old Dominion University, followed by a Q-and-A with a panel of local experts. Fro ...

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Nurses Make a Difference for Health and Environment

Nurses Make a Difference for Health and Environment

Listen to the audio version of this news story originally published at Public News Service. RICHMOND, Va. - Nurses can make a difference in the fight against climate change, accor ...

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Coalition: Pipeline Route Poses Landslide Risk

Coalition: Pipeline Route Poses Landslide Risk

Published by Public News Service RICHMOND, Va. -- Federal regulators are taking a favorable view of the huge Atlantic Coast Pipeline. But research by a citizen group has found tha ...

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Federal Pipeline Agency Criticized for Being Too Close to Industry

Federal Pipeline Agency Criticized for Being Too Close to Industry

RICHMOND, Va. — A spate of proposed gas pipeline projects have drawn sharp criticism from advocates who say the federal permitting agency has a built-in bias toward the industry. ...

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People > Polluters

People > Polluters

On October 5, 23 environmental activists were arrested outside the Governor’s mansion in Richmond, Virginia. About 50 people were in Richmond that day to tell Virginia Governor Te ...

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Ask tough pipeline questions now

Ask tough pipeline questions now

Published by the Danville Register and Bee. To the editor: I am writing out of deep concern for my family and community to respond to a recent article, (“Report: MVP’s impact ‘min ...

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Calling out pollution, two dozen are arrested in Virginia

Calling out pollution, two dozen are arrested in Virginia

Published by Environmental Health News Twenty-three people were arrested Wednesday as the fight to stop fossil fuel infrastructure erupted in  Virginia, according to groups stagin ...

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