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Dan Gecker announces campaign for Virginia’s 10th Senate District

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Published date: February 5, 2015 | 12:09 am
Updated: February 4, 2015 | 11:37 pm
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Dan Gecker announced Wednesday that he is running for Virginia’s 10th Senate District, an open seat encompassing parts of Chesterfield County and Richmond City, and all of Powhatan County.

Virginia Tech receives record number of undergraduate applications

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Published date: February 5, 2015 | 12:02 am
Updated: February 4, 2015 | 11:33 pm
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Virginia Tech received a record number of undergraduate applications for admission to the Class of 2019. The almost 22,500 freshman applications received to date is a 7.6 percent increase over last year’s total of 20,897.

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Governor McAuliffe applauds land conservation funding in Obama budget

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Published date: February 4, 2015 | 11:53 pm
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Governor McAuliffe on Wednesday expressed his gratitude to President Obama for including up to $37.8 million in his Fiscal Year 2016 budget to fund land conservation projects within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

House of Delegates passes transportation accountability legislation

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Published date: February 4, 2015 | 12:08 am
Updated: May 6, 2025 | 11:45 am
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The Virginia House of Delegates passed legislation Tuesday to require Northern Virginia transit transportation projects be evaluated and selected for funding pursuant to the same standards as all other transportation projects.

Virginia local officials voice support for EPA proposed clean water rule.

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Published date: February 3, 2015 | 4:26 pm
Updated: October 26, 2025 | 8:12 pm
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In advance of a rare joint congressional hearing to be held this Wednesday, elected officials called on members of the state’s congressional delegation to support restoring protections to 57% of Virginia’s streams, including those that feed into the Chesapeake Bay.

Bridgewater College, CICV and Department of Energy unite to advance solar energy

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Published date: February 3, 2015 | 10:00 am
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Bridgewater College, 14 other private, nonprofit colleges in the Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia (CICV) and the U.S. Department of Energy have joined forces to help develop comprehensive plans for implementing solar power on area campuses.

Virginia Tech researcher focuses on new strategies to prevent the flu

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Published date: February 2, 2015 | 12:33 pm
Updated: February 2, 2015 | 2:20 pm
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Linsey Marr, a professor in the Charles E. Via Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, is obsessed with flu transmission.

Televisions bigger and greener than ever?

Roddy Scheer
Published date: February 1, 2015 | 11:48 pm
Updated: July 19, 2025 | 6:37 pm
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According to the U.S. Department of Energy, Americans’ 275 million television sets burn through some 65 billion kilowatt hours of energy each year, representing four to five percent of U.S. household electricity consumption.

Microbeads and marine pollution

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Published date: February 1, 2015 | 11:29 pm
Updated: July 19, 2025 | 6:37 pm
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Can brushing your teeth or using an exfoliating face or body wash be an act of pollution? Perhaps so, because over 1,000 personal care products contain tiny plastic “microbeads,” each about a half millimeter in diameter.

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Virginia’s Youth Conservation Corps program accepting crew applications

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Published date: February 1, 2015 | 5:00 pm
Updated: February 1, 2015 | 11:02 am
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Applications are being accepted through April 15 for two three-week summer sessions of the award-winning Virginia State Parks Youth Conservation Corps (YCC).

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