Have your chimney, heat pump inspected before heating season
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Before trading in the warm days of summer for a toasty fall fire, be sure to have your chimney cleaned and inspected.
Search Results for clean energy
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Kaine: Give coal-powered plants flexibility on regs
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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine wrote a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy to urge the agency to adopt attainable New Source Performance Standard for coal-fired power plants.
League of Conservation Voters honors Sen. Emmett Hanger
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The Board of Directors of the Virginia League of Conservation Voters recently honored State Sen. Emmett Hanger (R-Mount Solon) for his stewardship of Virginia’s natural resources.
Gloor pitches Richmond to 2-0 win over Erie
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The Richmond Flying Squirrels (40-41) cruised behind left-hander Chris Gloor to an efficient, 2-0, win over the Erie SeaWolves (41-39) at Jerry Uht Park on Sunday afternoon. The ninth shutout of the year for the Squirrels allowed them to split the four-game series.
Earth Talk: Barack Obama’s climate change initiative
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In what’s being billed as the greatest environmental initiative of his presidency, Barack Obama announced on June 25, 2013 that his administration is instituting stringent mandatory restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions by power plants, factories and other industrial sources. These sources combined account for roughly 40 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions across the U.S. The goal is to reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions nationally by four percent below 1990 levels within the next seven years.
Mark Warner introduces whistleblower protection bill
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) has introduced legislation to strengthen existing military whistleblower protection laws to ensure that victims of sexual assault and other misconduct are protected from retaliation after they report the alleged offenses.
Earth Talk: The sequester’s impact on the environment
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The sequester that went into effect March 1 is a budget measure that cuts federal spending across the board to the tune of $85 billion, meaning every federal agency is affected and must reduce discretionary spending. Indeed, the cuts are already having a negative impact on everything from air quality monitoring to extreme weather response capability to staffing at national parks.
Fly Lady: I don’t have enough
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How many times a day do you hear the word “ENOUGH” come out of our mouth or into your brain. Let’s just look at damage that this word does to all of us.
Erik Curren: Why the $100 hybrid tax is unfair and bad for business
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I never thought of Governor Bob McDonnell as a performing artist until now. But his proposal to raise money for transportation without appearing to raise taxes is a stage act with contortions worthy of Cirque de Soleil.
Earth Talk: The greening of McDonald’s
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Long a poster child of environmental ills and health concerns, McDonald’s has worked steadily over the last two decades to clean up its act. The company will never win over vegetarians, who eschew meat for health, animal welfare and even world hunger concerns (we’d feed more people by using the land used to grow animal feed to grow food for people instead), but it has otherwise made some significant strides.
