On May 8th, Dominion will be seeking the State Corporation Commission’s (SCC) approval of their 15-year plan in a hearing in Richmond. Dominion’s plan keeps Virginia stuck in its dirty-fuel past, putting the health of Virginia’s families and future generations at risk, all the while ignoring the clean energy solutions available to us. We’ve collected [...]

April 25th, 2012 Contact: Mike McCoy Appalachian Voices Campaign Coordinator 434-299-8550 Whitney Byrd Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition Coordinator 434-293-6373 The Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition today applauds the action of the Norfolk City Council, which voted last night to “provisionally oppose” a $5 billion coal-fired power plant proposed by the Old Dominion Electric Cooperative [...]

On May 8th Dominion will be seeking the State Corporation Commission’s (SCC) approval of their 15-year plan in a hearing in Richmond. This plan includes no large-scale wind or solar and is set to fail to meet conservative benchmarks for energy efficiency and renewable energy set by the General Assembly. We will Rally in front [...]

On May 8th, Dominion will be seeking the State Corporation Commission’s (SCC) approval of their 15-year plan in a hearing in Richmond. We will Rally in front of the SCC’s building on May 8th at 12 PM to tell Dominion to put clean energy in the plan! What: Rally for a Clean Energy Future – [...]

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The effort to keep Hampton Roads air from suffering from a major new source of air and water pollution for next sixty years is picking up and your help is needed. On Tuesday Norfolk is going to vote whether to join the Consortium for Infant and Child Health (CINCH), The American Lung Association, Isle of [...]

Make your voice heard! Use the form below to write an email to the Mayor and the Hampton City Council asking them to oppose the Old Dominion Electric Cooperative’s proposed coal-fired power plant. We have provided a few talking points below that you can use but we left the form for the letter blank because [...]

Norfolk could be on the verge of becoming the fourth Hampton Roads locality to officially oppose the largest coal fired power plant ever proposed in Virginia. It appears, however, that a few strange events occurred in the last couple weeks that kept it from coming to a vote and could potentially make the resolution of [...]

Here is a great blog post from “Activist and Mom” Betsy Shepard who has been fighting a proposal to build the largest coal plant in Virginia a few miles from her family’s home in Surry County. She points out the incredible hypocrisy of the coal industry’s rhetoric around greenhouse gas emissions in the face of [...]

Despite our best efforts in the General Assembly this year a bill to allow the dumping of toxic mining waste into streams is on Governor McDonnell’s desk. The bill takes away the right of landowners to decide whether or not they want to allow the dumping of toxic mining waste into underground mines on their [...]

Wise Energy for Virginia coalition member organization, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, and other organizations, hosted a rally last Saturday March 24th called “MARCH to End Dominion’s Power Madness.” Over 200 people attended in the pouring rain, fulfilling the goal of surrounding Dominion Virginia Power’s Headquarters in Richmond with Virginia activists asking Dominion to end [...]

Make your voice heard! Use the form below to write an email to the Mayor and the Norfolk City Council asking them to oppose the Old Dominion Electric Cooperative’s proposed coal-fired power plant. They have put two resolution on the agenda. One is outright opposition. Another is a weaker resolution which directs city staff to [...]

Join us for the MARCH to End Dominion’s Power Madness this Saturday in downtown Richmond! QUESTIONS? Contact Keith Thirion at info@endpowermadness.com RSVP TODAY by clicking here! We will rally in downtown Richmond at Kanawha Plaza at noon where we will have some speakers and fun activities for the whole family! Then we will march to [...]

Thank you for signing up for the MARCH to End Dominion’s Power Madness! Details for the rally are listed below. QUESTIONS? Contact Keith Thirion at info@endpowermadness.com We will rally in downtown Richmond at Kanawha Plaza at noon where we will have some speakers and fun activities for the whole family! Then we will march to [...]