Farmstays becoming a mainstay in vacationing, rural Virginia
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For Virginia travelers looking to explore rural living, or learn more about farming, there are farm families who offer lodging or bed-and-breakfast accommodations.
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Personal outreach to landowners is vital to conservation program success
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Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment research published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE shows that private landowners trust conservation agencies more and have better views of program outcomes when they accompany conservation biologists who are monitoring habitat management on their land.
Herring files suit to block Trump from undermining 2020 Census
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Attorney General Mark Herring filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration from undermining the 2020 decennial census with a “poison pill” citizenship inquiry that the U.S. Census Bureau has said is likely to depress response and compromise the accuracy of the census.
Millions of students demand #NeverAgain to gun violence
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Over a million students and allies walked out of classes in the U.S., from Maine to Hawaii, and elsewhere in the world on March 14. Ten days later, March 24, hundreds of thousands of defiant marchers flooded the streets in Washington, D.C., and at more than 800 places on every continent except Antarctica. What might they do next?
Warner, Peters call on Trump administration to appoint chief science, technology advisor
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U.S. Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Gary Peters (D-MI), co-chairs of the bipartisan Senate Science Forum, called on the White House to appoint a Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), a position that has been vacant for more than a year.
Groups sue for information about Heartland Institute’s involvement in EPA climate science decisions
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The Southern Environmental Law Center and Environmental Defense Fund are suing the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to release information about the Heartland Institute’s efforts to attack climate science.
Warner, Kaine on Senate regulatory reform bill
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, released the following statement after the Senate voted 67-31 to pass S. 2155, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act:.
Gas prices drop three cents in Virginia this week: AAA
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As drivers along the West Coast and throughout the Mid-West start paying more at the pump, Mid-Atlantic motorists are enjoying another week of lower local gas prices.
The fight to protect endangered species in the era of Trump
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Now Trump is going to allow the importing of elephant “trophies” after all! Where do things stand overall now in the fight to protect endangered species, especially as wildlife now also face threats from climate change?
Warner on reported Trump-Kim meeting
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U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement after President Trump accepted an invitation to meet with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un.
