
Has the government shutdown impacted the environment?
No one is happy about the recent partial shutdown of the federal government in the U.S. as President Trump plays hardball with Congress on allocating funds for his “border wall.”

No one is happy about the recent partial shutdown of the federal government in the U.S. as President Trump plays hardball with Congress on allocating funds for his “border wall.”

Congressman A. Donald McEachin (VA-04) comments on the announcement of his appointment to serve as a member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Reps. A. Donald McEachin (VA-04), Elaine Luria (VA-02), and Walter B. Jones (NC-03) co-introduced the bipartisan Defend our Coast Act to prohibit the Department of the Interior from issuing leases for offshore oil drilling in the mid-Atlantic.

The Virginia Air Pollution Control Board today unanimously approved an air pollution permit for a natural gas compressor station that would power Dominion Energy’s proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation biennial State of the Bay report score decreased one point this year to 33, equivalent to a D+. The drop was largely due to increased pollution and poor water clarity caused by record regional rainfall.

Gas prices in Virginia have fallen 2.5 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.08/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 4,081 stations in Virginia.

Single-game tickets and Flex Packages for the 2019 UVA Baseball season are available through the Virginia Athletics Ticket Office. General admission season tickets for the 34-game home schedule remain on sale.

It’s hard to believe that bitcoin, the best known of a group of new “cryptocurrencies” that many believe to be the future of money, could be the final nail in the coffin causing irreversible climate change.

You know, if Republicans wanted a border wall, they could have made it happen, easily. But instead, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell decided that he wanted the filibuster more than a wall that we all know is never going to be built.

Gas prices in Virginia have fallen 4.6 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.11/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 4,081 stations in Virginia.
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