Businesses urge McAuliffe to strengthen Virginia clean energy economy
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Business owners, civic officials and health professionals called on Gov. Terry McAuliffe to comply with the EPA Clean Power Plan.
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Virginia Tech professor earns $1 million grant to produce nuclear radiation energy-harvesting device
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Lei Zuo, associate professor of mechanical engineering, was recently awarded a Department of Energy Nuclear Engineering research grant to develop nuclear radiation energy.
Alon Ben-Meir: Incentives and peace, Part 2
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Unless distrust, insecurity, and illusions are first addressed, no incentives will motivate Israel and the Palestinians to make concessions needed to reach a peace agreement.
Virginia Tech students team with Ecuadorean tribes to learn most-effective plants for treating infection
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Ten Virginia Tech undergraduate students held onto their hats this summer as they plunged down Amazonian river systems into the heart of Ecuador.
Free community festival delivers life-saving information
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PrepareAthon, a free festival encouraging community preparedness, is coming to the Science Museum of Virginia on Saturday, August 27.
National survey, Virginia program noting farms’ conservation efforts
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The National Agricultural Statistics Service is conducting its second annual survey to measure the environmental benefits associated with conservation practices on agricultural land.
Ken Plum: Constituencies in a Commonwealth
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The process of redistricting becomes complicated and very political as incumbent legislators attempt to draw lines around those persons most supportive of them.
MillerCoors to expand Elkton brewery, creating 27 new jobs
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MillerCoors, a joint venture between SABMiller and Molson Coors Brewing Company, will invest $60 million to expand its Shenandoah brewery in Rockingham County.
McAuliffe announces Affordable Pathways grants to help students succeed
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Affordable Pathways grants (up to $140,000 each) will be awarded to as many as four public two- and four-year institutions of higher education.
McAuliffe announces utility-scale solar project in Northampton County
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Hecate Energy has received a permit for a new utility-scale solar facility to be built in Cape Charles in Northampton County.
