The Gulf Coast’s $100 billion a year tourism industry took a major hit as a result of the BP oil disaster. Sales at restaurants and hotels are way down. Thousands are out of work. Watermen wonder if crabs and oysters will ever come back. Tourists have deserted resort areas. [...]
The Chesapeake Bay is a treasure of nature, the largest estuary in the nation, but its health has been in decline for many years. Now, a new initiative is in place requiring the Bay states and the federal government to restore the Bay and its tidal tributaries.
Join us for “Healing Our Waters: A Community [...]
Where does Governor McDonnell stand on the Chesapeake Bay clean up?
Over the next several months the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Bay states, including Virginia, are obligated to come up with a plan to significantly improve the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay by 2025.
Right now we need to do everything we [...]
You’ve probably been following the McDonnell administration’s attacks on the environment over the past eight months. They’ve advocated for drilling off our coast, proposed closing five state parks, tried to cut funding for Chesapeake Bay restoration by over $11 million and seem to want every square inch of the commonwealth paved for yet another road. [...]
It was in March this year that Joe Bouchard, Laura Wood Habr (Croc’s 19th Street Bistro and Virginia Beach’s “green ambassador”), Ari Lawrence (Virginia Chair, Surfrider Foundation), and myself met to talk about doing a Hands Across The Sand in Virginia Beach. We were inspired by the 10,000 Floridians who a month earlier had [...]
BREAKING: Thanks everyone for submitting comments. Last yesterday the DOI has decided to re-open the comment period following assessment of the BP disaster. If
you submitted comments, they will be rolled over to the new comment period.
While we applaud President Obama’s decision to cancel Virginia’s lease sale, we are not out of the woods on drilling. [...]
With now 5 beaches organized for HANDS ACROSS THE SAND and days counting down until June 26, we need all hands on deck to make this National Day Action extremely successful!
Our message with HANDS ACROSS THE SAND is simple, but multi-fold: #1″No” to offshore drilling, #2 “Yes” to clean renewable energy, and #3 [...]
Check out our new promotional! video for Hands Across the Sand! It was produced by Ivy Main, our wonderful Renewable Energy Chair. It “stars” Chesapeake Bay group chairperson Terra Pascarosa, William Reyes a local business owner, former Commander of the Norfolk Naval Station Joe Bouchard, and Ari Lawrence, the Virginia Chapter chairperson with Surfrider Foundation.
The [...]
Glen Besa, Director of the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter, offered the following statement in response to President Obama’s announcement that, in addition to continuing the moratorium on drilling permits for new deepwater wells and delaying in planned exploration off Alaska’s coast, Virginia Lease Sale 220 is canceled.
“The economic and environmental disaster that is currently [...]
The Federal Minerals Management Service (MMS) has called for seismic surveying to explore for oil and gas along the Atlantic. Seismic testing represents the first step in offshore oil drilling and is extremely dangerous to fish and marine life.
Click here to tell MMS to keep air guns out of sensitive areas to include the [...]
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