From our fight to stop the proposed Hampton Roads coal plant to our efforts to curb mountaintop removal and promote energy efficiency in the Commonwealth, February has been a whirlwind month. We’d like to take a moment to update you on recent events and what they mean for the rest of [...]

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By Senator Patricia S. Ticer
Letter to the Editor of the Alexandria Gazette Packet Feb. 18, 2010
This week we had a public hearing for my bill SB 564, known as The Stream Saver Bill. The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the issuing of a permit for coal surface mining operations unless the applicant affirmatively [...]

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Reposted from The Chesapeake Climate Action Network’s Blog.
Today was another day for Virginia to make headlines. Like most headlines of late, this wasn’t a good one either. Our new Attorney General has made the environment one of his top priorities. Shouldn’t this be a GOOD thing you ask? In some instances, yes, but not when [...]

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The Virginian-Pilot
© February 19, 2010
Virginians knew it wouldn’t take long for Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to focus his attention and office on furthering his political agenda and ambitions. The surprise, perhaps, is that it took him a whole month to put Virginia embarrassingly ahead of Texas as an opponent of science and the source of [...]

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(Source: Richmond Times - Dispatch)By PETER BACQUEEnvironmentalists and Dominion Virginia Power made common cause for energy conservation before the State Corporation Commission yesterday.
“These initiatives are exactly the types of forward-thinking measures that we all can and should take to curb energy consumption and reduce greenhouse gases,” Karl Bren, president of GreenVisions Consulting in Richmond, told [...]

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Southern Environmental Law Center
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A Statement from the Southern Environmental Law Center
February 17, 2010
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Virginia’s Challenge Of EPA Carbon-Emissions Rule Misguided
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Trip Pollard, Senior Attorney, 804-318-7484.
Cat McCue, Senior Communications Manager, 434-953-8672.
The announcement today by Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli that he is challenging the Environment Protection Agency finding that greenhouse gases endanger the public health and welfare is [...]

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Daily Press
By David Macaulay247-7838

10:18 p.m. EST, February 15, 2010
HAMPTON — Sobering evidence of how storms will have an increasingly devastating effect on the Peninsula as the century progresses is outlined in a new model by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
“This is an important issue for us to get moving on,” Eric Walberg, physical and [...]

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Dominion stokes the coal industry, but says it’s a friend to the environment
BY ERIKA HOWSARE of the Cville Weekly

It’s a dim, drizzly afternoon, and I’m riding around Wise County with Kathy and Gary Selvage. I can see what they’re pointing out—evidence of surface mining—but I can’t see it the way they do.
The Selvages have [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 11, 2010

Hundreds Converge in Richmond for a Senate Hearing
on Ending Destruction of Streams from Mountaintop
Removal Coal Mining

Contact:
Kathy Selvage, Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards (Wise County) 276-219-2721
Tom Cormons, Appalachian Voices, 301-910-8973
Kayti Wingfield, Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition, 540-470-0643

RICHMOND—Hundreds of Virginians attended a special hearing this afternoon before the Virginia Senate’s [...]

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Daily Press:
ISLE OF WIGHT - – A panel of speakers will discuss the potential health and environmental impact of Old Dominion Electric Cooperative’s proposed coal-fueled power plant in neighboringSurry County during a community forum next week.
Read the whole article from the Daily Press here.

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It looks as though Debra McCown at the Bristol Herald Courier has been rather busy lately. These three in articles that take an in depth look at the debates around mountaintop removal and carbon capture came out on the 7th and 8th of February.
Coal mining practices that destroy, not just the land, but entire communities.
Feb. [...]

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Just remember that this was only the very first step. Now the statewide battle begins…
Surry Board approves ODEC applications
Smithfield Times - Jim Tuttle - ‎1 hour ago‎

SURRY — The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Thursday night to approve five land use applications for a proposed coal-fired power plant …

Permits Approved For $6B Power Plant In [...]

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With Valentine’s Day around the corner, it’s the time of year when we think of Virginia’s most beloved treasures -rolling mountains, clear streams, and fresh air.
FIGHT TO KEEP OUR MOUNTAINS AND STREAMS
For the first time ever, the Virginia General Assembly has the opportunity to vote on a bill that would protect these treasures from [...]

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PRESS RELEASE from the Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition
February 2, 2010
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COAL PLANT FOES UNDETERRED BY DENDRON TOWN VOTE APPROVING ODEC PLANS
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Dendron, VA–Following a series of close votes by the Dendron Town Council last night approving zoning changes for Old Dominion Electric Cooperative’s proposed coal-fired power plant, the Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition vowed to [...]

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PRESS RELEASE from the Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition
www.WiseEnergyForVirginia.org
February 1, 2010
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NEW ECONOMIC REPORT SHOWS FEW JOBS FROM PROPOSED COAL PLANT IN SURRY COUNTY WOULD GO TO LOCAL RESIDENTS
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CONTACT:
Scott Moore, Moore Data LLC, 843-564-5257
Tom Cormons, Appalachian Voices, 301-910-8973
Cale Jaffe, Southern Environmental Law Center, 434-760-0816

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Dendron, VA—At a public hearing tonight, the [...]

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