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climate change pollution

Court rules suit challenging Youngkin move to drop Virginia from RGGI can proceed

Chris Graham
Published date: June 24, 2024 | 6:02 pm
Updated: June 1, 2025 | 3:17 pm
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A Floyd County court ruled on Monday that a suit against the state to challenge Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s move to disengage Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative can proceed.

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Shenandoah Valley, Northern Virginia under Drought Warning Advisory

Chris Graham
Published date: June 24, 2024 | 5:30 pm
Updated: July 23, 2024 | 7:17 pm
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The Shenandoah Valley and Northern Virginia were placed under a Drought Warning Advisory by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality on Monday.

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Lynchburg, Lee County receive HUD grants for public-housing improvements

Chris Graham
Published date: June 23, 2024 | 2:23 pm
Updated: July 6, 2024 | 10:19 am
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Lynchburg and Lee County have been awarded federal grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for capital improvements in public housing.

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Report: Chesapeake Bay ‘dead zones’ expected to be above average this year

Chris Graham
Published date: June 22, 2024 | 11:23 am
Updated: June 1, 2025 | 3:17 pm
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The Chesapeake Bay’s so-called “dead zones” – low-oxygen areas that can suffocate underwater life and shrink available habitat – are expected to be above average this year.

fascism

Mission Creep: How the police state acclimates us to being modern-day slaves

John Whitehead
Published date: June 22, 2024 | 11:11 am
Updated: July 19, 2025 | 6:32 pm
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Like the proverbial boiling frogs, the government has been gradually acclimating us to the specter of a police state for years now.

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Virginia Tech entomologist: Ticks are everywhere, and they’re not going away

Crystal Graham
Published date: June 20, 2024 | 5:10 pm
Updated: April 9, 2025 | 10:57 am
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Ticks are everywhere, and they’re not going to go away, according to a Virginia Tech entomologist.

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Augusta County man alleges ‘hate crime’ in decade-old sewer project: Investigation

Chris Graham
Published date: June 20, 2024 | 11:29 am
Updated: May 6, 2025 | 10:45 am
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Back around the first of the year, a reader named David Proffitt wrote me the first of dozens of emails, and counting, asking me to look into what he called a “hate crime” involving a sewer project in Augusta County.

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Community stakeholders form Staunton Black Business Collective

Rebecca Barnabi
Published date: June 19, 2024 | 2:55 pm
Updated: August 25, 2025 | 6:51 pm
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A group of community stakeholders has organized to help grow Black business in Staunton with the Staunton Black Business Collective.

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Researcher: Study finds ‘significant increase in pediatric suicides’ in Virginia, nationwide

Crystal Graham
Published date: June 19, 2024 | 2:33 pm
Updated: July 23, 2025 | 7:12 pm
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The number of suicide attempts including Tylenol overdoses among youth is of particular concern to poison control call centers in Virginia and across the nation.

Washington and Lee University professor’s article published in science journal

Rebecca Barnabi
Published date: June 18, 2024 | 11:05 am
Updated: July 23, 2024 | 8:04 pm
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Margaret Anne Hinkle, a Washington and Lee professor, recently co-authored a peer-reviewed article in Environmental Geochemistry and Health.

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