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Virginia groups applaud President Obama for efforts to curb climate impacts

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Published date: January 21, 2015 | 10:49 am
Updated: October 26, 2025 | 8:12 pm
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Virginia groups issued the following statement following the President’s State of the Union address, offering strong support for the EPA’s Clean Power Plan.

Dominion Virginia Power planning Virginia’s first large-scale solar project

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Published date: January 21, 2015 | 12:16 am
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Dominion Virginia Power filed an application with the Virginia State Corporation Commission Tuesday to build Virginia’s first large-scale solar facility.

Charlottesville activist in first large U.S. delegation to Cuba since opening of relations

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Published date: January 21, 2015 | 12:03 am
Updated: May 15, 2025 | 7:54 pm
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The activist group CODEPINK will be hosting a “super delegation” of 150 people to Cuba to mark the recent thawing in U.S.-Cuba relations, particularly the easing of travel restrictions.

Keystone Pipeline: Foreign profits, American risk

Chris Graham
Published date: January 20, 2015 | 11:38 pm
Updated: May 7, 2025 | 1:51 pm
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Media coverage of the Keystone pipeline is coalescing around a single narrative: environmentalists oppose the pipeline because of climate change concerns, and U.S. construction companies support the pipeline because it creates jobs.

Virginia Tech engineer developing a self-centering beam to better withstand earthquakes

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Published date: January 20, 2015 | 9:52 am
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Economic losses from earthquakes are often devastating. The financial damages from earthquakes in Chile in 2010, Japan in 1995, and California in 1994 were $30 billion, $100 billion, and $20 billion respectively.

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Governor McAuliffe announces $1.3 million from USDA to Department of Forestry

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Published date: January 18, 2015 | 7:08 pm
Updated: January 18, 2015 | 4:12 pm
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Governor Terry McAuliffe announced that a Virginia Department of Forestry resource conservation project is among 110 high-impact projects nationwide set to receive more than $370 million through the USDA.

Virginia Tech engineers look into wastewater pollution issues to modernize Caribbean communities

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Published date: January 18, 2015 | 6:04 pm
Updated: January 18, 2015 | 11:08 am
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For the past three years, Virginia Tech civil and environmental engineering students and faculty advisers Mark Widdowson and John Novak, have spent considerable time in the Caribbean but the journeys were not of the recreational variety.

Virginia Tech’s Linsey Marr studies health impacts of engineered nanomaterials

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Published date: January 18, 2015 | 1:59 pm
Updated: January 18, 2015 | 11:03 am
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Virginia Tech professor Linsey Marr is now among a handful of researchers in the world who are addressing concerns about engineered nanomaterials in the atmosphere.

What is being done to protect grizzly bears?

Roddy Scheer
Published date: January 18, 2015 | 10:37 am
Updated: July 19, 2025 | 6:37 pm
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Before European colonization of North America, upwards of 50,000 grizzly bears—also known as brown bears—roamed free across what is now the continental United States.

VAP3 releases RFI for potential solar energy development project

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Published date: January 17, 2015 | 12:44 pm
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Governor Terry McAuliffe released a Request for Information exploring whether solar energy development at, around, and/or atop state-owned property and/or buildings would make business sense, address state priorities and benefit the public.

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