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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.
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The coal industry and coal-related activities cost Virginia $22 million more than was paid by these businesses in taxes, fees and other revenue to state coffers in fiscal year 2009, according to a report released Wednesday that is the first analysis of the full financial impact of the coal industry on the Commonwealth. Given the nature and extent of the costs associated with coal, and the relatively small amount of taxes collected from coal companies, it can be expected that the industry imposes a net cost on Virginia taxpayers in most years.
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While there are many ways to green one’s laundry room, one place to start is with detergent. Luckily, in 2009 the federal government phased out phosphates, harsh chemicals that help break down minerals and loose food bits during the wash cycle, because their presence in waste water causes algae blooms in downstream waterways.
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UVa. football coach Mike London talks with the news media in advance of the Cavs’ game this weekend at home against Coastal Division rival Miami,
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U.S. Senate candidates Tim Kaine and George Allen were both stumping in Lynchburg on Friday
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Pollution haze has been a problem at Shenandoah National Park for decades despite a 1977 congressional dictum calling for the nation’s greatest natural treasures—known as “Class 1” areas—to be free of the unhealthy air plaguing cities
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Waynesboro Public Library invites kids of all ages to enjoy comedian and ventriloquist, Uncle Ty-Rone on Saturday, July 14 at noon. Ty-Rone’s show of self-produced hip-hop music and clean comedy is high energy with lots of audience participation geared to youth and families. “I have a passion for children. They need guidance,” Ty-Rone says
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The worst thing that could happen now that we all have power (fingers crossed as I type those words, what with more storms on the way this week, and all) would be that we’d move on with our lives and not learn anything from this experience
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Sustainable communities take a long-term perspective, focusing on “both the present and future, well beyond the next budget or election cycle” so that the needs of the current as well as future generations are met with adequate resources
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A week ago, I met 2,000 people who would like nothing more than to give President Obama a lump of coal on Election Day. But what they really want to do is keep giving the entire nation coal-the coal we need for our coal-fired power plants, for our domestic steel production, and to reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources
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