Researchers call for changes in 50 year-old drinking water standards
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Changes in drinking water quality in the 21st century are coming from a myriad of circumstances, and not all are for the best.
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Hardide Coatings to invest $7.25 million to establish first Virginia operation
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Hardide Coatings, Inc., a manufacturer of advanced surface coatings, will invest $7.25 million to establish its first Virginia operation in Henry County and create 29 new jobs.
Virginia groups applaud President Obama for efforts to curb climate impacts
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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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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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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
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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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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.
Governor McAuliffe announces $1.3 million from USDA to Department of Forestry
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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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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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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.
