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Category: Safeguarding Communities
Gov. McDonnell’s Chesapeake Bay Report Card
By Admin on Oct 04, 2010 in Safeguarding Communities
Gov. Bob McDonnell gets an “F” on his Chesapeake Bay report card. He has failed to protect the Bay from agricultural runoff, from storm water runoff and sewage pollution, and failed to provide the jobs and economic growth that come from protecting the Bay. The only accomplishment he has is his giveaways to [...]
Video: So You Want to be an Oil Baron
By Admin on Sep 17, 2010 in Safeguarding Communities
When “drill, baby, drill” becomes “spill, baby, spill,” pro-drilling governors need help. Fossil fuel baron Phil Moneybags tells them how to stay the course.
Tell Governor McDonnell to Support Real Clean Up of the Chesapeake Bay
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 [...]
Community Forum: Protecting Our Coasts, Our Businesses, Our Communities
By Admin on Sep 08, 2010 in Safeguarding Communities
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. [...]
Healing Our Waters: A Community Forum on Restoring the Chesapeake Bay
By Admin on Sep 08, 2010 in Safeguarding Communities
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 [...]
Your Chance To Ask McDonnell, “How Clean Is Too Clean?”
By Admin on Aug 05, 2010 in Safeguarding Communities
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. [...]
Over 1700 Join Hands Across The Sand in Virginia
By Admin on Jul 16, 2010 in Safeguarding Communities
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 [...]
Tell MMS to Stop Atlantic Drilling Program, Fast-Track Wind Instead!
By Admin on Jun 29, 2010 in Safeguarding Communities
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. [...]
Join Hands Across The Sand June 26!
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 [...]
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