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The Clean Power Plan was published in the federal register today, beginning the process of cleaning up America’s dirtiest power plants, the leading source of U.S. global warming pollution. The rule’s publication is widely expected to trigger a new wave of polluter-driven attacks on the rule, both in the courts and in Congress.
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Virginia Tech has increased its capacity to study forests and how such landscapes influence climate by adding Thomas O’Halloran to the forest resources and environmental conservation research faculty in the College of Natural Resources and Environment.
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Approximately 19 acres of publicly held land at Staunton Crossing along U.S. Route 250 are slated for commercial and retail development. Working with Staunton’s Economic Development Authority, the land is under contract by Staunton Crossing Partners LLC.
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After the House select committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya conducted its daylong hearing today, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) released this statement on the need to move forward on the State Department’s preferred location for a Foreign Affairs Security Training Center (FASTC) at Fort Pickett near Blackstone, Virginia.
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North Carolina is, in a word, good. The Tar Heels (5-1, 2-0 ACC) have run off five straight wins since the increasingly inexplicable loss in their season opener to reeling South Carolina, and how they’re winning is as impressive as how many.
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UVA football coach Mike London talks with reporters on the ACC football coaches teleconference on Wednesday. The ‘Hoos (2-4, 1-1 ACC) play at North Carolina (5-1, 2-0 ACC) on Saturday.
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When President Lincoln was assassinated, it took nearly 12 days for the news to travel from North America to Europe. That was the fastest means possible, as messages were passed from overland cables to steamship and back to overland cables. That is until a revolutionary invention: the transatlantic cable.
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Did you know President Obama’s “core legacy” is free trade — and the centerpiece of this alleged “free trade” policy is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? Neither did I.
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UVA football coach Mike London talks with reporters on Monday. The Cavs (2-4, 1-1 ACC) play at North Carolina (5-1, 2-0 ACC) on Saturday.
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David Washington found Zach Pascal in the end zone for an 11 yard touchdown pass with 2:18 to play and the ODU defense forced a Lee McNeill pass incomplete on fourth and 13 as the Monarchs came back to defeat Charlotte 37-34 Saturday evening at Foreman Field at S.B. Ballard Stadium.
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