Governor McAuliffe Announces Utility-Scale Solar Project in Northampton County
~20-megawatt facility to provide enough power to supply over 3,000 households~ Released by Governor Terry McAuliffe RICHMOND – Governor McAuliffe announced today that Hecate Energ ...
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Study: Clean Power Can Lead to Millions in Commercial Energy Savings
Published by Public News Service RICHMOND, Va. - A new study finds that if states implement the Clean Power Plan, energy savings would be greatest in retail and office buildings a ...
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Advisory: Locals, Environmental Groups Raise Concerns Over State Fracking Standards
State protections questioned as industry-funded review gets underway ABINGDON, Virginia – Local residents and community activists will join environmental and social justice groups ...
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McWhorter: Renewables would bring more jobs
Published in The Roanoke Times on August 3, 2016 Re: "Marching on Richmond," July 19 editorial: In that piece, you asked those in support of environmental justice to think about h ...
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This op-ed was published by the Richmond Times-Dispatch on July 29, 2016 When I moved from Hampton to Newport News in 1999, I was told I was not living in a flood zone. Fast forwa ...
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Six Hundred Virginians Join ‘March on the Mansion’ to Tell Gov. McAuliffe: Put People Over Polluters on Pipelines, Coal Ash, and Climate Action
Photos are available at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/chesapeakeclimate/albums/72157670679870341 Contact: Kelly Trout, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, 717-439-0346 (cell), kel ...
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Virginia Ranks 39th in Nation for Solar Energy in New Report
Published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch Virginia remains one of the worst states in the country for solar energy, according to a report released today by the Environment Virginia ...
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Hundreds of Virginians Will ‘March on the Mansion,’ Call on Gov. McAuliffe to Put People Over Polluters on Pipelines, Coal Ash, and Climate Action
CONTACT: Kelly Trout, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, 240-396-2022, kelly@chesapeakeclimate.org Amanda Pohl, Virginia Organizing, 804-337-1912, amanda@virginia-organizing.org S ...
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Will you help us #ReachTerry?
There is still time to register to join Virginia Organizing and hundreds of people concerned about environmental justice to tell Governor Terry McAuliffe to put people over pollut ...
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Virginians to March on the Governor’s Mansion to Demand Climate Justice
Virginia Organizing will join with more than 60 other groups on July 23 to march on the Governor's mansion to demand climate justice from the administration. Governor Terry McAuli ...
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