On February 17, thousands of Virginians joined 35,000 citizens from across the country at a rally in DC to say NO to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. If this destructive project is built, NASA scientist James Hanson has characterized it as “game over” for our efforts to fight climate change.
The President and the [...]
Thousands of Virginians braved the wintery wind on Sun., Feb. 17 to join tens of thousands others in urging President Obama to move Forward on Climate, starting with the rejection of the dirty tar sands pipeline. Thank you!
Here’s a sampling of the tons of media hits the day received. There are [...]
Can’t make it to DC on Feb. 17 for the Forward on Climate Rally? Don’t despair – you can be there in spirit!
Amplify your Tweet!
Head on over to Thunderclap, a new social media tool that can “amplifying your Tweet into a sonic boom.” Thunderclap allows you to join a virtual shout out to Move [...]
Be a part of THE BIGGEST Rally for the Climate in US History.
Sign up TODAY!
On Feb. 17, Sierra Club, 350.org and hundreds of organizations across the U.S. are organizing to bring 25,000 of us to the Mall in Washington, D.C. for the biggest rally for the climate in U.S. history.
We need YOU to sign up [...]
Be a part of THE BIGGEST Rally for the Climate in US History.
Sign up TODAY!
On Feb. 17, Sierra Club, 350.org and hundreds of organizations across the U.S. are organizing to bring 25,000 of us to the Mall in Washington, D.C. for the biggest rally for the climate in U.S. history.
We need YOU to sign up [...]
Thanks to Skip Stiles at Wetlands Watch, the Commonwealth’s previous website supporting the work of the Governor’s Climate Change Commission has been restored. Click here to view.
“The state of Virginia has removed the Internet site for the 2008 Climate Change Commission. With help from staffers at the Department of Environmental Quality, Wetlands Watch [...]
If every polluter’s lobbyist around Congress was suddenly replaced by a severely asthmatic child, then maybe Congress wouldn’t always be trying to gut clean air standards.
There is a growing body of scientific evidence that states that warming temperatures caused by industrial carbon pollution worsen smog pollution, which in turn causes asthma attacks and other respiratory [...]
Take a step to protect the George Washington National Forest today.
The George Washington is the national forest with the largest collection of federal lands in the greater Chesapeake Bay watershed. In May, the Forest Service released the draft forest plan and an associated environmental impact statement for the Forest. After the agency hears from the [...]
Virginia Chapter Director Glen Besa is one of forty Sierra Club representatives serving as official observers to the UN climate talks in Cancun. He has filed two reports thus far which you can read here and here.
Photo caption: In the face of mounting science that GHG emissions from the use of fossil fuels are approaching [...]
We cannot let Virginia Attorney General Cuccinelli undermine our state’s environmental laws.
Mainstream Virginians who may have voted for Ken Cuccinelli for Attorney General last November likely had no idea what they were getting, but we all know now. For the next four years we have a right wing extremist as Attorney General who is much [...]
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