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Democratic Party presidential nomination candidate Julián Castro visited a wind turbine manufacturing plant in Newton, Iowa, on Wednesday, and proposed new policies to invest in renewable energy, particularly wind power.
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Now in its third year, the Virginia Tech College of Science Dean’s Discovery Fund recently announced research awards that will support such diverse projects as nanotechnology, mass extinction events, and halting disease in corn.
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Brainchild of Harvard biochemist Daniel Nocera, the “bionic leaf” is a small man-made solar collector that takes sunlight and water and turns it into any of a variety of usable fuels or fertilizers.
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Proper and regular maintenance of a golf course is very important under any condition. But usually, it gets quite tough to maintain the quality of a golf course during tight play schedules.
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Microsoft Corporation, one of the largest and most influential companies in the world, will inject significant capital investment to expand its enterprise data center in Mecklenburg County.
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The Sierra Club Virginia Chapter published its annual Virginia General Assembly Climate & Energy Scorecard.
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Bridgewater College has received a $750 Walmart Foundation Community Grant that will help fund the college’s sustainability efforts. The Walmart Foundation awards funds through its local, national and international giving programs to support community-based projects and programs.
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We are now ending the last full week of the 2018 Session prior to crossover. As explained last week, the Senate and House will have to finish work on bills originating in their own chambers by Tuesday. This has been a week full of contention.
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Traveling by electric car through the rural Shenandoah Valley is not a thing of the future. The future is now, as electric car owners can today plan a travel route through the Valley and beyond, with well-placed stations to recharge from the Tennessee border all the way to Northern Virginia.
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DuPont Community Credit Union this week announced its plan to install solar power generation at nearly all of its locations. In its agreement with Sigora Solar, the member-owned credit union will use renewable energy at its headquarters, operations center, and 12 (of 13) branch locations.
