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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Sixty-seven mountains leveled and over 156,000 acres of land lost. Countless communities sickened by heavy metals and coal ash contamination. A warming planet threatens our coastlines and promises ever-increasing extreme weather events. From the cradle to the grave, coal is a dangerous source of energy. It is time to move away from coal, and on [...]

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For almost a decade, residents of Alexandria have been fighting to retire GenOn’s Potomac River Coal Plant, a 61-year-old dirty power plant. Those efforts have forced the company that owns the plant, GenOn (formerly Mirant), to set aside $34 million in an effort to contain some of the plant’s pollution, but this is not enough.  [...]

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Here is an excerpt from the Daily Press article by Dan Parsons. You can read the whole article here. WILLIAMSBURG —Plans are in the works for the Williamsburg City Council to issue a formal stance on the proposed Surry County coal plant when the call goes out for public input on plant permits, but speakers [...]

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From the Richmond Times Dispatch. You can read the whole article here, excerpt below. The CEO of the state’s largest utility said there must be a realistic conversation about the sustainability of alternative energy resources before a national energy policy can be made. “Our habit of debating energy issues is to talk back at each [...]

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At Yesterday’s (Friday, March 26th) Air Board Meeting the board voted 4 to 3 to announce to the EPA that the Air Board did not ask for Cuccinelli’s law suit challenging the EPA’s greenhouse gas ruling. Basically they are saying, Virginia’s environmental regulators do not stand with Virginia’s attorney general in his effort to use [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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PRESS RELEASE from the Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition www.WiseEnergyForVirginia.org February 1, 2010 ***************************************** NEW ECONOMIC REPORT SHOWS FEW JOBS FROM PROPOSED COAL PLANT IN SURRY COUNTY WOULD GO TO LOCAL RESIDENTS ***************************************** 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 Download the full [...]

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Today the EPA announced plans to seek stronger limits of pollution forming ozone. EPA administrator said in a statement, “Smog in the air we breathe poses a very serious health threat, especially to children and individuals suffering from asthma and lung disease.” The current limit, set by the Bush administration EPA, is 75 parts per [...]

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As Congress was returning from the August recess, there wasn’t much news about the climate bill.  The only energy-related news breaking through the coverage of the rancorous health care debates and town-hall tea parties was a study on “energy sprawl” published by five staff members of the Nature Conservancy. “Renewable Energy Needs Land, Lots Of [...]

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This Time in South Carolina – Cross posted from the Appalachian Voices Front Porch Blog Today rate-payers and oxygen users can breathe a little easier, as the Santee Cooper company nixed its plans to build another coal plant in the state. A committee of the state-owned utility voted this morning to suspend an effort to [...]

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cross-posted from the CCAN blog. This morning, CCAN staff, volunteers and concerned Americans nationwide staged series of beach-themed rallies in around fifty cities across the country. Held in partnership with 1Sky, the festive gathering sought to urge our Senators to enact climate legislation that ensures a real cap on CO2, dictated by the EPA, as [...]

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Cross posted from Appalachian Voices Front Porch Blog Congressman Tom Perriello (VA-05) was just on Rachel Maddow talking about Bonner/ACCCE’s fraudulent attempts to get him to vote against climate legislation. The fossil fuel industry has completely destroyed their fragile credibility, and things are heating up for ACCCE and their corporate lobbying partners with increasing calls [...]

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