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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Faculty, staff groups at UVA pushing Board of Visitors on forced departure of Jim Ryan
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A workers group is trying to organize resistance to the forced departure of UVA President Jim Ryan, and a faculty group is calling for an independent investigation into the role played by the UVA Board of Visitors into pushing Ryan out the door.
Harrisonburg Mennonites mark end of fast highlighting starvation in Gaza
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A group of Harrisonburg-area Mennonites marked the end of a 40-day collective intermittent fast with an event in Downtown Harrisonburg on Sunday calling on elected officials to end the siege and stop starving Gaza.
‘Victory for the American public’: Outcry encourages removal of proposal to sell federal land
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A proposal to sell 2.2 to 3.3 million acres of public lands in the western U.S. was removed from President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
Andrew Moss: Veterans Administration nurses on the front lines
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As protesters challenged ICE agents carrying out immigration raids in Los Angeles, demonstrators in Washington, D.C., were protesting the Trump administration’s attacks on veterans’ jobs, benefits and healthcare.
Bob Topper: Christian Nationalism and delusions of grandeur
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With the exception of die-hard Trumpers, it has become obvious to all that we elected another old man, this one actually incoherent and incompetent.
Guns driving U.S. suicide crisis: Report details problem, offers strategies for saving lives
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Deaths by suicide involving guns in the U.S. were at a record high in 2023, at an astounding 27,300, accounting for 58 percent of all gun-related deaths.
American-born Pope Leo’s disapproval of Trump may point in Pope’s favor
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The two most powerful Americans in 2025 are President Donald Trump and the newly appointed Pope Leo, but the two will never be bosom buddies.
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.
Aaron Barmer: Chalking up the resistance to fascist control in Staunton
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I’ve been incensed lately by the state of affairs in these United States. I’ve continued to chalk it up here in the City of Staunton.
