Climate and Energy News Roundup: July 2025
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Jeff Heie, the founder and director of the local nonprofit GiveSolar, received a Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions 2025 Sustainability Champions Award.
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The Senate budget bill is even worse: Healthcare system on verge of being gutted
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Six rural Virginia hospitals are now at risk of being closed, but good news for the 1 percent – you’ll be getting your tax breaks.
Mel Gurtov: The failure to actually obliterate Iran’s nuclear sites
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President Trump’s childish and out-of-touch message following U.S. strikes on Iran is now, properly, a matter of contention.
Mid-Year Review: The Top 20 wrestling matches of the first half of 2025
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With the first half of 2025 in the rear view mirror, it’s time to reflect on professional wrestling’s greatest triumphs over the past six months.
Don Beyer to run again in 2026: Old Democrat doesn’t always act, vote his age
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Don Beyer is going to run for re-election to the Eighth District congressional seat in the 2026 cycle. Two things at play here: Beyer will be 76 next summer, so, he’s an old; but he’s not necessarily one of the olds who acts and votes like an old.
America’s most lawless agency: Trump’s ICE is the prototype for tyranny
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While the U.S. wages war abroad—bombing Iran, escalating conflict, and staging a spectacle of power for political gain—a different kind of war is being waged here at home.
Staunton: Consulting firm works to integrate gender equity into productions of Shakespeare
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In marriage, owning land, voting, reproductive rights and working, women have fought the fight for gender equity for a long time.
Trump, unable to keep things to himself, tipped off bombing raid to Iran
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Donald Trump’s inability to keep his yapper shut appears to have undermined the rationale behind the bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Virginia social services offers grocery benefit program for school-age children in summer
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In a continued effort to address childhood hunger during the summer months, the Virginia DSS offers Virginia SUN Bucks.
Spotsylvania County MAGA patriot pleads guilty to shooting two Latino immigrants
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A Spotsylvania County MAGA patriot pleaded guilty in federal court this week in a hate-crime case in which he tried to shoot two Latino immigrants after asking them how long they’d been in the U.S.
