Click here to listen to the radio advertisements the Wise Energy for Virginia coalition is airing in NOVA and Richmond.
They ask you to visit this landing page: http://wiseenergyvirginia.org/

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This is cross-posted from CCAN’s Blog
Yesterday Gov. Kaine applauded Virginia’s electrical co-ops for donating energy efficient lights to Virginia State Parks, hailing it as “a major step forward” for Virginia.
It’s great that Virginia is taking strides to be more energy efficient. Considering Virginia spent just $84,000 statewide on efficiency measures in 2006, compared with [...]

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Cross-posted from ilovemountains.org
January 26, 2009
You may not know this, but iLovemountains.org is managed and funded not by a single organization, but by a coalition of groups from across Appalachia who work everyday at the grassroots on environmental issues such as mountaintop removal.
We will be taking one Monday each month to spotlight one of the amazing [...]

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Crossposted from ilovemountains.org by SarahV
January 19, 2009
With the opening of the Congressional session last week, and the inauguration on Tuesday all eyes are on capitol hill.
This, thought the folks here at iLoveMountains, makes it the perfect time to roll out a new weekly feature. We’re taking a page from the great Stephen Colbert and [...]

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The strip-mined landscape in Wise, Virginia.
By Janet L. Parker, Ph.D. | January 12, 2009 (Center for American Progress)

Tennessee’s recent sludge spill is an obvious reminder that irresponsible coal practices are dirty and devastating.
Mountain-top removal coal mining is dirty, noisy, and scars the landscape. It has also harmed Kathy Selvage’s mother’s prayer time. Selvage is [...]

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New study shows investing in efficiency instead of Wise County coal plant would save most Virginia families up to $91 a year. Download the report by clicking here.
Richmond - A new report shows that investing in energy efficiency instead of building the Wise County coal plant to meet the same electricity demand would yield hundreds [...]

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Time Magazine, December 31st, 2008
There is a great article on energy efficiency from a recent issue of Time Magazine that is available online if you click here. Here is the teaser:
This may sound too good to be true, but the U.S. has a renewable-energy resource that is perfectly clean, remarkably cheap, surprisingly abundant and immediately [...]

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Download the executive summary (.pdf 68 KB)
Download the full report (.pdf 1.5 MB)
See Press Release Here.
Appalachian Voices                Tom Cormons        (301) 910-8973 (cell)
Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards    Kathy Selvage     (276) 565-1083
Sierra Club, Virginia Chapter            Glen Besa         (804) 225-9113
Chesapeake Climate Action Network        Anne Havemann    (240) 396-2022
Southern Environmental Law [...]

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See the full story from the Bristol Herald Courier by clicking here.
By Debra McCown
Reporter / Bristol Herald Courier
Published: January 8, 2009
BRISTOL, Va. – If Dominion Virginia Power were to invest in energy efficiency instead of completing a coal-fired power plant in Wise County, it would save rate-paying households an average of at least $77 [...]

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This was originally posted at www.crmw.net and concerns a West Virginia site but with 29 mountains already lost in Virginia we need to be doing these sorts of studies in our state. This one shows that for the community, mountaintop removal is a lose-lose situation when compared to wind.
The study commissioned at the end [...]

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Originally posted at the Front Porch Blog by Jamie
iLoveMountains.org, a coalition fighting mountaintop removal coal mining, of which Appalachian Voices is a partner organization has launched a comprehensive section of information including links to news, blog posts, photos, and videos of the event as well as detailed information about coal fly ash, historical accounts of [...]

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This was originally posted at Appalachian Voices Front porch Blog by Jamie. Virginia has ash dams just like this one that broke in Tennessee. The Wise County power plant has a planned ash dump alongside the Clinch River.You can find updated information at http://www.ilovemountains.org/tva-spill/

Environmental organizations teamed up Saturday to take water samples along the embattled [...]

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