Last week we sent you a message letting you know about the forum on the massive coal plant proposed for Hampton Roads happening this Tuesday at Virginia Wesleyan College at 7pm. Today I am asking you to help spread the word. Of course, if you have yet to RSVP this is also another opportunity to [...]

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Here is all the basic information in one place – please bookmark this page for future reference. If you have additional questions please email WeekendinWiseCounty@gmail.com or call the Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards at (276) 565-6167. We ask that individuals help fund the event at a sliding scale of $20 – $75 payable by cash or [...]

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Please Register for the Weekend in Wise by filling out the form below. Once complete a confirmation email will be sent to you with all the basic information for the event. your browser does not support iframes. Please use Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari to view this page.

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Please sign up below to receive regular updates about tour campaigns so you can stay informed and get involved. We don’t send out more than one e-mail a week and sometimes not even that many. Also you can be assured we only write to you when there is something important that you need to know, [...]

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Please sign up below to receive regular updates about tour campaigns so you can stay informed and get involved. We don’t send out more than one e-mail a week and sometimes not even that many. Also you can be assured we only write to you when there is something important that you need to know, [...]

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As you have probably heard, the Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) plans to build a massive coal plant on the edge of Hampton Roads in Surry County. If the coal plant is built, the downwind communities of Hampton Roads will receive all of the detriments of increased air and water pollution and none of the [...]

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On Wednesday, Senator Jim Webb spoke at a rally in Washington, DC, that was hosted by the radical coal industry front group “FACES of Coal”. The rally was purported to be about “coal jobs” but was really in support of mountaintop removal mining. While Senator Webb did not address the issue of mountaintop removal in [...]

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You are invited to a forum on the impacts of the proposed coal plant on the communities of Hampton Roads—and what you can do to avoid them—on the evening of Tuesday, September 28th at Virginia Wesleyan University. Speakers will include former Virginia Delegate and retired Navy Captain Joe Bouchard and environmental and community health expert [...]

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This week’s coal ash community profile post was written by Gabriel DeRita, a Sierra Club Communications Apprentice. Also, follow today’s EPA coal ash public hearing in Chicago via our @SierraClubLive and @SierraClubILTwitter accounts. The area around Surry County, Virginia, is already home to some sinister projects, including several major coal ash disposal sites and Michael Vick’s infamous dog fighting [...]

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By Kathy Selvage The industry and busloads of miners headed out to DC yesterday and we learned that certain politicians would join them on the public stage today. I called Senator Webb’s DC office, got five minutes or less of a staffer’s time and used every second, barely stopping for even a deep breath. I [...]

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This Op-Ed is running at the Tidewater News Old Dominion Electric Cooperative’s announcement on Wednesday to delay plans for a massive coal-fired power plant in Hampton Roads offers a ray of hope that Virginia can still get on track toward a cleaner energy future. The temporary halt of what would be one of the dirtiest [...]

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As of 1:39 PM Friday, Sept. 9th Is financing delaying a Va. coal-fired power plant? Washington Post (blog) – 20 hours ago The decision by a Henrico County-based electric cooperative to delay a controversial $6 billion coal-fired generating station in Surry County raises … Coal plant stalled Tidewater News – 4 hours ago GLEN ALLEN—Citing [...]

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