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Virginia joins multi-state coalition supporting economic, environmental and health benefits of clean air

Published date: November 4, 2015 | 6:35 pm

Updated: May 27, 2025 | 8:39 pm

Attorney General Mark Herring announced today that Virginia will join a coalition of seventeen other states and seven major municipalities taking legal action to support the Clean Power Plan, a national pollution-reduction strategy that will combat the impact of climate change on Virginia’s economy, coastal communities, the military, agriculture and forestry industry, and the health of Virginians.

Scary water facts with Environment Virginia

AFP

Published date: October 30, 2015 | 9:48 pm

Updated: October 30, 2015 | 8:50 pm

In anticipation of Halloween, Environment Virginia unveiled the What’s Brewing in the James: Ten Scariest Water Facts, showing that, while improving, a terrifying concoction of chemicals, bacteria, and other pollutants still plague the James and Virginia’s waterways.

Atlantic Coast Pipeline submits route changes to avoid environmental impacts

Chris Graham

Published date: October 30, 2015 | 8:37 pm

Updated: July 16, 2025 | 3:51 pm

Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC today submitted additional information to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the 564-mile interstate natural gas transmission pipeline designed to meet the need for cleaner electricity generation, satisfy the growing demand for natural gas to heat homes and businesses, and promote consumer savings and economic growth.

Earth Talk: Where do the Republican presidential hopefuls stand on environmental issues?

Roddy Scheer

Published date: October 30, 2015 | 8:32 pm

Updated: July 19, 2025 | 6:37 pm

In recent decades, Republicans have certainly been far less sympathetic to environmental causes than the Democrats, and this year’s batch of candidates for the party’s presidential nomination is no exception.

Virginia Tech engineering professor works to manage storm water, help save the environment

AFP

Published date: October 24, 2015 | 11:49 am

Updated: October 23, 2015 | 11:51 pm

As development occurs, storm water quantity and quality can be negatively affected and regulators want cities and towns to make sure they reduce the volume and improve the quality by treating the storm run-off before it enters creeks, rivers, or lakes, to the best of their ability.

Where do the leading Democratic Party candidates for president stand on environmental issues?

Roddy Scheer

Published date: October 23, 2015 | 4:14 pm

Updated: July 19, 2025 | 6:37 pm

President Obama, with his recent push to join the world in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, will be a tough act to follow on the environment. But each of the Democratic candidates has shown a willingness to continue fighting the green fight and working with industry and other nations to rein in emissions and promote sustainable development.

Virginia Tech graduate student investigates impact of environmental conditions on wood duck behavior

AFP

Published date: October 11, 2015 | 10:12 pm

Updated: October 11, 2015 | 8:15 pm

Once a baby wood duckling hatches, it follows its mother’s repetitive whistle-like call to jump out of the nest and join its siblings in a family group.

Does the concrete industry have a big environmental impact?

Roddy Scheer

Published date: October 11, 2015 | 6:38 pm

Updated: July 19, 2025 | 6:37 pm

The 20 billion tons of concrete produced around the world annually account for an estimated five to 10 percent of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

New techniques promise better containment of damaging contaminants from environmental disasters

AFP

Published date: September 8, 2015 | 2:29 pm

Updated: September 8, 2015 | 8:31 am

Catastrophic oil spills, nuclear power accidents, and erupting volcanoes all share a common thread. They are environmental disasters where the flow of hazardous materials, dispersed by the natural movements of air and/or water, seem uncontrollable.

Environmental/ethical/spiritual costs of Northern California wine industry

AFP

Published date: August 31, 2015 | 8:33 am

Updated: June 25, 2025 | 11:43 am

I have been contemplating why the growing struggle by rural residents against the expanding, industrial wine industry in Sonoma and Napa counties, Northern California, has touched my heart and soul so deeply.

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Virginia joins multi-state coalition supporting economic, environmental and health benefits of clean air

Scary water facts with Environment Virginia

Atlantic Coast Pipeline submits route changes to avoid environmental impacts

Earth Talk: Where do the Republican presidential hopefuls stand on environmental issues?

Virginia Tech engineering professor works to manage storm water, help save the environment

Where do the leading Democratic Party candidates for president stand on environmental issues?

Virginia Tech graduate student investigates impact of environmental conditions on wood duck behavior

Does the concrete industry have a big environmental impact?

New techniques promise better containment of damaging contaminants from environmental disasters

Environmental/ethical/spiritual costs of Northern California wine industry

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