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About 100 activists, experts and community leaders from across Virginia converged outside the Richmond Convention Center the morning of May 9 to tell Dominion Energy to “drop the act” outside the corporation’s annual shareholders meeting.
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As a part of the Green RFP Program managed by the Virginia Tech Office of Sustainability, 12 sustainability proposals from eight student organizations will receive $125,410.
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VDOT will host a “Pardon Our Dust” citizen information meeting concerning improvements to Durant Road (Route 154) in the city of Covington.
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A coalition of national fair housing groups today asked a federal court in Washington, D.C., to order HUD to reinstate a federal requirement that local and state governments address segregated housing patterns as a condition of receiving HUD funding.
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The funeral industry in the USA is valued at over $20.7 Billion with approximately 2.4 million deaths annually. The foundation for this industry was in embalming.
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement on the Trump Administration’s decision to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran deal.
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U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, joined a group of 11 Senate Committee ranking members on a letter calling on President Trump to not unilaterally abandon the Iran nuclear agreement.
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Geologists used to believe that “fracking”—or hydraulic fracturing, the process of drilling down into the earth and injecting water, chemicals and sand at high-pressure to release and capture the gas or oil contained in the rock—couldn’t actually cause earthquakes.
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Biologists from the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries confirmed the presence of Northern Snakehead in Lakeview Reservoir in Colonial Heights.
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The following is a list of highway work that may affect traffic in the Staunton District during the coming weeks. The Staunton District consists of 11 counties from the Alleghany Highlands to the northern Shenandoah Valley.
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