SCC to Virginians: Be prepared for upcoming hurricane season
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The Atlantic hurricane season starts today, and the State Corporation Commission’s Bureau of Insurance encourages Virginians to be prepared.
Search Results for flooding
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May 31 is Dam Safety Awareness Day in Virginia
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin has declared May 31 Dam Safety Awareness Day in Virginia, encouraging individuals and communities to understand the flood risk associated with dam failures and to take actions that increase safety.
Virginia Tech tropical storm expert encourages people to be ‘weather aware’
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A Virginia Tech meteorologist with expertise in hurricanes and tropical storms encourages people to prepare for the Atlantic hurricane season that begins June 1.
Staunton wants county taxpayers to go big on a new downtown courthouse
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Augusta County taxpayers should spend tens of millions of dollars more on renovations to the Augusta County Courthouse so that select Downtown Staunton shopkeepers can make a few extra bucks selling coffee and sandwiches.
For clean air and a clean Chesapeake, electrify your lawn care
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There’s a good chance, if you use a gas-powered lawn mower, that maintaining your lawn is worse for the environment than your morning commute. In some cases, far worse.
Alon Ben-Meir: Beware America
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Since Trump rose to power in 2016, my concerns about the future of America have only been gravely compounded.
New tool shows how the Chesapeake Bay watershed is transforming
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The Chesapeake Bay Program, in collaboration with the Chesapeake Conservancy, U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Vermont, announced the release of the Very High-Resolution Land Use/Land Cover and Change Data.
Lawrence S. Wittner: Imperial nostalgia, and its historical perils
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Although great empires rank among the most powerful engines of world history, they are also among the most dangerous, especially as they brood over their decline.
Augusta County Courthouse referendum stalled: Youngkin doesn’t seem to get it
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who no one will confuse with King Solomon, is trying to play “both sides” with the fate of the Augusta County Courthouse referendum.
Climate Action Alliance of the Valley: Climate, energy news roundup
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If we continue with more of the same, we can kiss 1.5°C goodbye. Even 2 degrees may be out of reach. And that would be catastrophe. This is madness. Addiction to fossil fuels is mutually assured destruction. — UN Secretary-General António Guterres Our climate crisis Christiana Figueres, a former UN climate chief and co-author of The Future…
