
Albemarle County launching Climate Mondays weekly workshops
To facilitate information sharing and public input as Albemarle County works to draft a Climate Action Plan (CAP), the county invites the community to participate in Climate Mondays.

To facilitate information sharing and public input as Albemarle County works to draft a Climate Action Plan (CAP), the county invites the community to participate in Climate Mondays.

Congressional Safe Climate Caucus co-chairs Reps. Alan Lowenthal (CA-47) and Don Beyer (VA-08) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act.

Do all the Democratic contenders for President in 2020 agree on the need to battle climate change? Which ones have demonstrated the most leadership on environmental issues?

Producing electricity (power plants) and getting ourselves and our stuff around (transportation) do generate the majority of greenhouse gas emissions around the world.

Last fall, Virginia Tech Student Affairs took a critical step toward identifying what’s needed to make this goal a reality by commissioning an external review on programs and services for LGBTQ+ students.

A recent report to the United Nations from the world’s leading climate scientists indicates that the humanitarian crisis and scale of ecological devastation to come has seen no precedent in human history.

Senate Republicans, in a 21-19 party-line vote, passed a bill to bar the governor or any state agency from participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), without a two-thirds majority vote from each legislative chamber.

Leaders must take a hard line against powerful commercial interests and rethink global economic incentives within the food system in order to tackle the joint pandemics of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change.

The Shifting Climates podcast and website – aimed at “rehumanizing the conversation” on climate change by connecting it to topics of faith and justice – has released its first four episodes, to broad reception.

A day after President Trump temporarily ended the longest-ever government shutdown, federal workers joined hundreds of regional activists to jump into the Potomac River in the name of climate action.
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