
Ken Plum: Focus on the environment
In the oddities of the Virginia government calendar, the one-term limited governor spends the first two years of the term implementing a biennial budget proposed by the previous governor.

In the oddities of the Virginia government calendar, the one-term limited governor spends the first two years of the term implementing a biennial budget proposed by the previous governor.

A $733 million budget proposal from Gov. Ralph Northam would create an Office of Offshore Wind, support ongoing efforts to clean the Chesapeake Bay and significantly boost the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation grant program.

Officials broke ground Monday on a sustainable classroom at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Brock Environmental Center for students in a new Virginia Beach City Public Schools program.

If you are trying to reduce the amount of waste you produce, great! You are doing a good thing. However, a home environment is different from the office, and it’s important to try and reduce waste from both.

Over 60 Virginia congregations across the state will be preaching about climate justice this weekend or this fall, reaching over 4,000 people in their houses of worship through the Climate in the Pulpits program.

The Virginia Environmental Endowment is providing more than $3.7 million in grants advancing water quality and Chesapeake Bay improvements, land conservation practices, environmental literacy, climate resiliency, and invasive species control.

Congresswoman Elaine Luria (VA-02) this week met with her office’s Chesapeake Bay Advisory Board to brief our region’s key stakeholders about her legislative efforts to protect and preserve the Chesapeake Bay.

Are any companies in the “one-for-one” charitable space pioneered by shoe maker TOMS focusing specifically on environmental sustainability?

Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-01) had three of his bipartisan bills pass out of the Natural Resources Committee.

Virginia Naturally Schools is the official environmental education school recognition program of the Commonwealth, administered by the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.
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