Moms Clean Air Force: Naptime activists unite!
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Moms Clean Air Force (MCAF) is a community of 400,000+ parents working to combat air pollution and respond to the climate change crisis.
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Shenandoah Valley history written in textiles: Quilt exhibit offers insight
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Little in the recorded history of Augusta County is as intimate and revealing as are the handmade quilts so carefully created by Valley women a century or more ago.
Staunton VDOT District traffic alert: Feb. 9-13
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The following is a list of highway work that might affect traffic in the Staunton VDOT transportation district during the coming weeks.
Aquaculture helping to boost Virginia oyster harvest
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Virginia’s oyster harvest rose 25 percent last year, passing the 500,000-bushel mark. The dockside value of that harvest increased to $22.2 million, with an estimated economic impact of over $58 million.
Southern Environmental Law Center responds to Dominion solar announcement
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Today Dominion Virginia Power announced it is planning to develop 400MW of solar power that will be operational by 2020. Dominion anticipates that these solar projects will be capable of powering 10,000 homes at peak capacity.
Plant-based molecule may be key to cleanup of Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster
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A Virginia Tech professor is part of a team of scientists from Japan and the United States that may have discovered a way to remove radioactive cesium from the millions of gallons of contaminated water being held at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant following the 2011 disaster.
Virginia Tech receives record number of undergraduate applications
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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.
Governor announces land conservation grants
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Governor Terry McAuliffe announced the recipients of 14 grants totaling $1.7 million awarded by the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation, a state land conservation board. The grants will help add 5,729 acres to Virginia’s conserved lands.
Governor McAuliffe applauds land conservation funding in Obama budget
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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.
UVA football announces 2015 recruiting class
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The UVA football program signed 21 student-athletes to a National Letter of Intent (NLI) for the 2015-16 academic school year head coach Mike London announced.
