Category: Safeguarding Communities

Sierra Club Disappointed by Gov’s Uranium Directive

By Mary Rafferty on Jan 19, 2012 in Featured, General Assembly, Uncategorized, Uranium Mining

For Immediate Release
January 19, 2012
For More Information
Lisa Guthrie (804) 240-1976
Mary Rafferty (401) 862-8749
Chris Miller (540) 347-2334
Conservation Groups Disappointed by  Governor’s Administrative Directive on Uranium Mining
In response to Governor McDonnell’s recent directive, conservation organizations expressed concern about the rush to write regulations for the uranium industry behind closed doors.
“On behalf of Virginians across the Commonwealth, we are disappointed by [...]

Keep The Ban On Uranium Mining in VA

By Mary Rafferty on Jan 11, 2012 in Uranium Mining

For more information & to track this issue throughout the General Assembly session visit:
www.KeepTheBan.org

Virginia has a nearly 30-year ban on uranium mining. A well financed push by the industry is trying to lift the ban so they can mine and process uranium, starting in Southside Virginia. Drinking water, human health, farmland, property values, wildlife [...]

Jan 23rd: Citizen Lobby Day

By Mary Rafferty on Jan 11, 2012 in Chapter News, Clean Energy Solutions, General Assembly, Uranium Mining

January 23: Conservation Lobby Day.
In a few days, Virginia’s General Assembly members, and a swath of high paid corporate lobbyists, will head back to Richmond for what could be one of the most important legislative sessions for our environment in recent memory.
We face significant challenges this year. The [...]

Roanoke: One of America’s Most Endangered Rivers

By Mary Rafferty on May 18, 2011 in Uranium Mining

Today the Roanoke River was included in American Rivers’ 26th annual list of the 10 most endangered waterways in America. American Rivers says lifting the ban on uranium mining would threaten the Roanoke River as well as drinking water supplies in the region with radioactive pollution and toxic chemicals.

Besa Statement on House Vote to Allow Drilling off Virginia

By Eileen Levandoski on May 09, 2011 in Resilient Habitats

Besa issues statement on House drilling vote.

Hopewell Clean Air Meeting

By Eileen Levandoski on Feb 17, 2011 in Safeguarding Communities

Together, we can clean up Hopewell’s Toxic Air Pollution! Join us for a Public Meeting on DEQ’s Hopewell Health Risk Assessment of Air Toxics.
VA Department of Environmental Quality
Wed, Feb 23 starting at 6:30 PM
City Public Schools Central Office at 103 N. 12th Street in Hopewell
The DEQ meeting will begin at 6:30 and will start with [...]

VA Beach Uranium Mining Study Supports Ban

By Admin on Feb 02, 2011 in Safeguarding Communities, Uranium Mining

The Sierra Club Virginia Chapter commends the City of Virginia Beach for commissioning an independent study on the impacts of uranium mining on the city’s drinking water supply.
“The Virginia Beach study modeled severe rain events occurring in the area for proposed uranium mining in Virginia”, said Eileen Levandoski, conservation program manager with the [...]

Keep the Ban on Uranium Mining in Virginia

By Admin on Jan 03, 2011 in Safeguarding Communities, Uranium Mining

Uranium mining is a dirty and dangerous practice that puts the health of all Virginians at risk. Sierra Club is working with citizens across the Commonwealth to ensure the ban on uranium mining in Virginia is upheld.

Obama to Maintain East Coast Drilling Ban – Sierra Club Statement

By Admin on Dec 01, 2010 in Safeguarding Communities

The Virginia Chapter Sierra Club offered the following statement in response to President Obama’s announcement today to not pursue offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Eastern Gulf Coast for at least seven years.
“This is a very prudent decision by the White House as it protects both pillars of Virginia’s economy, namely its tourism [...]

Take Action on the Bay!

By Admin on Oct 18, 2010 in Safeguarding Communities

For far too long, Virginia has relied on voluntary measures to clean our waterways – and enough is enough. Tell the EPA and Gov. McDonnell to stop delaying and take action!