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RICHMOND – Today, Governor Northam, alongside a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers from both chambers, announced consensus legislation to comprehensively address Virginia’s toxic coal ash problem in a way that protects clean water and minimizes impacts to ratepayers and adjoining communities. The legislation requires all of the nearly 30 million tons of coal ash stored in […]
RICHMOND – Today, the State Air Pollution Control Board voted 4-0 to approve an air permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s Buckingham Compressor Station. The vote brings to an end a highly controversial and tumultuous process, marked by the removal in November of two dissenting board members in the middle of an important regulatory decision, […]
Incumbent Delegate carries flawless conservation voting record RICHMOND – Today, the Virginia League of Conservation Voters announced its endorsement of Jennifer Boysko for Senate of Virginia, to fill the vacant 33rd District seat formerly held by Jennifer Wexton, who was elected to Congress in November. Boysko heads to a special election tomorrow, Jan. 8, on […]
RICHMOND – Today, the Air Pollution Control Board voted 3-1 to allow another round of public comment on Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s proposed Buckingham Compressor Station, which if built, would disproportionately impact the historic African American community of Union Hill. The new comment period will allow concerned citizens to weigh in on new information that came […]
RICHMOND – Today, in response to a new report indicating that the average Dominion Energy ratepayer pays approximately $250 a year in unnecessary electricity costs, Dominion Energy attempted to invalidate the authors of the report and mentioned the Virginia League of Conservation Voters in doing so. In response, Michael Town, executive director of Virginia LCV, […]
VIRGINIA BEACH – Today, Governor Northam announced historic funding commitments aimed at safeguarding Virginia’s land and water resources and ensuring the Commonwealth meets its Chesapeake Bay recovery targets. This funding goes, in part, to increasing “Best Management Practices” cost-sharing used to help farmers protect local streams from agricultural runoff; increasing monies available to the Stormwater […]
RICHMOND – Today, Attorney General Mark Herring, acting on behalf of the Department of Environmental Quality and the State Water Control Board, filed a lawsuit against Mountain Valley Pipeline in response to more than 300 alleged violations of environmental regulations and permits by the pipeline builder in Southwest Virginia. The Mountain Valley Pipeline, which crosses […]
RICHMOND – Today, the Trump Administration approved permits allowing the use of seismic blasting to search for oil in the mid-Atlantic. The permits, issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service, give companies the green light to begin searching for oil off our coast using a practice known to harm important marine life, and comes as […]
RICHMOND – Today, the Northam Administration announced its replacements of Samuel Bleicher and Rebecca Rubin on the Air Pollution Control Board, which came in the middle of a high-stakes regulatory decision pertaining to a permit for Dominion Energy’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline. In response to today’s news, Michael Town, executive director of the Virginia League of Conservation […]
RICHMOND – Today, the Northam Administration announced it had reached an agreement requiring inclusion of the “Historic Pond” at Chesapeake Energy Center in any future regulatory solutions to Virginia’s toxic coal ash problem. For years, this site has been polluting the adjacent Elizabeth River with arsenic and other known pollutants. It is also the coal […]
