Please come to a important meeting on Wed., Feb. 20 to speak out against MTR and the Coalfields Expressway.
Governor Bob McDonnell and VDOT are pursuing hard a 50 mile mountaintop removal coal mine masquerading as a highway in Southwest Virginia. This road is all about mining coal not about transportation. The highway contractor is [...]
The US EPA posted its second year of greenhouse gas emissions data for the nation today [Feb. 5, 2013] showing Dominion to be the biggest carbon polluter in Virginia. The data shows that the top 3 carbon pollution sources in Virginia are all Dominion power plants: Chesterfield Power Station, Clover Power Station and Chesapeake [...]
Want to know how to jump-start Virginia’s Clean Energy Future?
Our campaign to move Dominion Virginia Power from its Dirty Coal Past to a Clean Energy Future was energized to an exciting, new level over the past few weeks. Here’s everything you’ve made possible:
The closing of the Potomac River Coal Plant;
An entire week of action [...]
It’s time for Dominion to do its part. As Virginians, we take personal responsibility for our environment and natural resources– conserving energy, reducing our carbon footprint and becoming more efficient. But while we take responsibility for reducing our personal impacts, our utility company is working against us.
Dominion can develop utility-scale renewable energy and implement [...]
Update: More than 85,000 comments were submitted nationally in opposition to the project. Click here to read our press release. Thank you and stayed tuned!
Want to find a way to skirt necessary environmental safeguards so you can mine more coal? Coal you don’t own?
Coal companies are trying to disguise a coal-mining operation as a [...]
On behalf of thousands of Virginians who opposed plans for what would have been one of the state’s biggest polluting power plants, the Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition today rejoiced at news that Old Dominion Electric Cooperative is suspending plans for its proposed coal plant in Hampton Roads.
Coalition member groups said they hope to work [...]
Earlier this year, the EPA announced historic standards to help in limiting carbon and other air pollutants coming out of industrial plants. The Carbon Pollution Standard is the first of its kind nationwide. This standard does not apply to pre-existing coal fired power plants, but will affect newly built ones like the possible neighboring and [...]
The first ever effort by the US EPA to regulate mercury pollution from coal fired power plants survived a challenge this past week in the US Senate.
Mercury is a potent neurotoxin that can diminish the intellectual capacity of children still in their mother’s womb if the mom has excessive levels of mercury in [...]
Every year, two billion tons of carbon and mercury pollution are dumped into our communities, and lead to an increase in asthma attacks and developmental disorders in our children. Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency announced new standards to limit this pollution. By placing the first national limits on industrial carbon from power plants, we will [...]
Hundreds of Sierra Club activists and community members packed two U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) public hearings on Thursday in Washington, D.C. and Chicago to demonstrate strong support for the agency’s proposed protections from dangerous carbon pollution produced by new coal-fired power plants. Sierra Club activists joined health professionals, labor union leaders, parents, faith leaders, [...]
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