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ROUNDUP: Virginia Conservation Community on the State Budget
ROUNDUP: Virginia Conservation Community on the State Budget On his “Thank You, Virginia” tour, Governor Northam stated “you can look at one’s priorities by how they budget.” After Governor Northam’s Budget Bill release on Thursday, we’re happy to see that Virginia is prioritizing our natural resources through historic investments in Virginia’s natural resources, and fully funding nearly all of the Virginia conservation community’s budget asks which we outlined in Our Common Agenda. The amount of conservation funding allocated in the Governor’ [...]
Your Guide to Virginia’s General Assembly
Your Guide to Virginia's General Assembly Session LEARN ABOUT OUR COMMON AGENDA For the first time ever, VCN hosted the Our Common Agenda Education Series, sharing a week of informational webinars and resources for each chapter of Our Common Agenda. For a refresher, you can watch our recorded webinars from the Our Common Agenda Education Series or click through the pictures below to read an educational digest. ADVOCATE FOR OUR COMMON [...]
ROUNDUP: Mountain Valley Pipeline Air Quality Permit
ROUNDUP: Mountain Valley Pipeline Air Quality Permit VIRGINIA AIR QUALITY BOARD MEETING THIS WEEK The Virginia Air Pollution Control Board will meet this week, December 2nd & 3rd, to consider an air quality permit for the proposed Lambert Air Compressor Station, a supporting facility for the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The Board will decide whether to accept or deny the air quality permit, sealing in the fate of the local community’s immediate health as well as those in the [...]
Climate Investments from the White House Are Coming to Virginia – What Should We Expect?
Climate Investments from the White House Are Coming to Virginia - What Should We Expect? Richmond's Main Street Station is an intermodal station for Amtrak's rail service and Richmond's city transit bus service. Our country is on the brink of the most significant climate investment we have ever made. Earlier this month, Congress passed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, investing an historic $1.2 trillion for physical infrastructure such as roads, bridges, and transit. And just last [...]
Pollution Prevention Education Week: No Metal Mining & # NOMVP
Chapter 8 of "Our Common Agenda" focuses on Pollution Prevention. Image credit: Lucas Manweiler Welcome to the seventh week of the Our Common Agenda Education Series, featuring the Pollution Prevention chapter. In this week’s blog post, we will be highlighting our “Protecting Virginia’s Environment & Public Health from Industrial Metal Mining” and “Stopping Unnecessary Pipelines & Phasing Out Fossil Fuel Buildout” policy papers as we hit critical points in the fight to stop harmful industrial projects. Follow the buttons [...]
Utility Reform Education Week: Dominion’s Rate Case
Welcome to the sixth week of Our Common Agenda Education Series, featuring the Utility Reform chapter of Our Common Agenda.
