POWHATAN — More than a year after the dozens of solar panels that blanket the roofs of Powhatan Elementary and Powhatan Middle School hummed to life, state and county officials finally cut the ribbon on the project.
“In 2020, when the General Assembly passed the Virginia Clean Economy Act, this...
Four things happened after I wrote last week about Power for Tomorrow’s strange advertising campaign attacking Clean Virginia.
The Fredericksburg Freelance-Star ran an op-ed from Power for Tomorrow’s executive director, Gary C. Meltz, opposing deregulation in the electric sector; the Virginia Mercury ran a response to my article from...
WASHINGTON — Local officials and community leaders on Wednesday pushed Congress to designate toxic chemicals that are contaminating drinking water as hazardous materials, which would trigger federal cleanup standards.
In addition, two Democratic senators from Michigan, Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters, introduced legislation that would put additional obligations on the...
A study by researchers from the University of North Carolina and Harvard’s T. H. Chan School of Public Health released this week calculated that 485 premature deaths in Virginia in 2016 were due to ozone and fine particulate matter emitted by cars, trucks and buses within the region.
Of those...
By Sydney Hearst
I was lucky enough to learn early on what the phrase “Virginia is for lovers” truly means.
Virginia has exquisite and diverse outdoor landscapes, and I started exploring them at a young age. My father’s family is based in the Virginia Beach area, so my earliest memories include...
On Holt Farm, the grass may literally be greener on the other side of the fence.
Woody Ward wasn’t expecting that. The farmer, who raises roughly 80 head of cattle as well as hay on his Albemarle County property, initially thought putting up fences around the three creeks that cut...
Basic needs at the largest U.S. national parks top the Biden administration’s first proposed lists of projects to receive funding through public lands trust funds, showing how much maintenance is needed even as parks brace for record numbers of visitors this summer.
The projects likely wouldn’t be visible to the...
Tuesday marked the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season, which federal meteorologists predict will be “above normal” in terms of storm activity, although not as intense as the 2020 season.
According to their forecasts, there’s a 60 percent probability that this year will see 13 to 20 named storms,...
Gov. Ralph Northam is looking to shed some pounds — 122,000 of nitrogen and 10,100 of phosphorus, to be exact.
The pledge, which came in the form of an executive directive signed by Northam Thursday morning, commits Virginia agencies and higher education institutions to a series of steps that aim...
It’s campaign season in Virginia, with primary elections coming up on June 6. But in addition to all the candidate flyers arriving in mailboxes, Virginia residents have been receiving another kind of mailer with a message unrelated to the election.
Oversized, campaign-style postcards from an entity calling itself Power...
