
Climate, energy news roundup: Sept. 20
Climate Action Alliance of the Valley produces The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News.

Climate Action Alliance of the Valley produces The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News.

The recent events in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and a plethora of other incidents and lives impacted across the nation, coupled with the removal of the confederate statues, makes it clear that we are a deeply divided nation.

Remember when Virginia was a battleground state? It actually hasn’t been that long since the Commonwealth hadn’t voted blue in a presidential election since LBJ. Not even purple anymore, the Old Dominion is just short of deep blue these days.

Climate Action Alliance of the Valley, a Central Shenandoah Valley non-profit, grassroots volunteer group, produces The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News to inform legislators and the public.

A bipartisan group of local, state and student leaders took a united stand for transparency at James Madison University today, sending a joint letter to the Board of Visitors urging them to allow online participation for students and their families in the Sept. 18 meeting.

Nearly seven weeks after the $600-per-week enhanced federal unemployment benefit enacted under the CARES Act expired, 34 states still have not initiated the $300 payments under the Lost Wages Assistance program.

A Confederate soldier statue that has stood for 111 years in front of the Albemarle County Courthouse in Downtown Charlottesville is coming down on Saturday morning, culminating several years of work by Charlottesville and Albemarle County racial justice activists.

You can map the nearly 20-year journey from the 9/11 attacks to the COVID-19 pandemic by the freedoms we’ve lost along the way.

Climate Action Alliance of the Valley, a non-profit, grassroots group of volunteers in the Central Shenandoah Valley, produces The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News to inform legislators and the public.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has endorsed Seventh District Rep. Abigail Spanberger’s candidacy for reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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