
Virginia: Unemployment rate falls to 2.8 percent
Virginia has good employment news to share ahead of the holidays, with a report Friday having the unemployment rate dropping a tenth of a point, to 2.8 percent.

Virginia has good employment news to share ahead of the holidays, with a report Friday having the unemployment rate dropping a tenth of a point, to 2.8 percent.

Solar energy systems will be installed at three state agency facilities, helping state agencies reduce energy costs.

PRA Group Inc., a global leader in acquiring and collecting nonperforming loans, will make a capital investment of $15.1 million to establish a new call center in the City of Danville.

In a previous column, I described how mystified I am about how a lot of patriotic conservatives could support a President who is manifestly damaging – and quite likely betraying – the nation they love.

The Virginia Air Pollution Control Board has, effectively, punted, again, on a controversial proposed air compressor station associated with the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

Dels. Sam Rasoul and Elizabeth Guzman are partnering with the Sunrise Movement, NAACP, Sierra Club, Virginia Organizing, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Food & Water Watch, and a host of intersectional organizations to introduce Green New Deal Virginia.

Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy and Virginia Interfaith Power & Light have merged, joining forces to advocate social, economic and environmental justice across Virginia.

Virginia has signed on to a document laying out goals towards a proposal that would cap and reduce carbon pollution from transportation and then invest proceeds from the program into low-carbon and more resilient transportation infrastructure.

Gas prices in Virginia have fallen 5.2 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.22/g yesterday, according to the GasBuddy daily survey of 4,081 stations in Virginia.

Today the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the US Forest Service’s federal approval for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to cross two national forests and the Appalachian Trail.
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