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 [...]
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!
Gulf Coast communities are facing the challenge of managing the immediate cleanup and recovery needs of area residents, businesses, wildlife and marine life. They will surely need all hands on deck to meet the challenges of the relief effort. Click here to sign up to volunteer as part of the relief efforts and the [...]
[Richmond] Among the many amendments to legislation offered by Governor Bob McDonnell is a change to HB1300/SB128 that weakens the authority of the State Air Pollution Control Board to mandate reductions in nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide in coal-fired power plants Northern Virginia. NOx and SO2 contribute to smog and acid rain, respectively.
“Governor [...]
Six days after President Obama announced plans to open new areas to offshore drilling, the Feds (Mineral Management Service – MMS) have scheduled seven public hearings on proposed Atlantic geophysical exploration (aka seismic surveys) including a hearing in Norfolk (Hilton Norfolk Airport) on April 29 at 1:00pm and 7:00pm.
Please attend this hearing and speak out [...]
Mark your calendar NOW for Hands Across the Sand on Sat., June 26, 2010 in Virginia Beach! Join the Sierra Club and Surfrider Foundation in drawing a human line in the sand to protest drilling off our Virginia coast.
What exactly is Hands Across the Sand?
The first Hands Across the Sand occurred on [...]
Drilling has not occurred off our Atlantic coast for almost 30 years, and thus information on the possible effects of Atlantic drilling “is 30 years out of date,” as Interior Secretary Ken Salazar recently pointed out.
Revealed at a Department of Interior workshop in Williamsburg in December 2008, large data gaps exist when it comes to [...]
Check out our newest video “Spill, Baby, Spill: Why Offshore Drilling is Wrong for Virginia”. Great work by our renewable energy chairperson, Ivy Main!
Click here to read “Virginia’s Misguided Rush to Drill” as published in the Daily Press, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010.
Victory is Ours: We Saved the Mattaponi River
by Tyla Matteson
Our valiant efforts over the past 13 years to Save the Mattaponi have a happy ending. Newport News terminated their project to construct the proposed King William Reservoir.
Our story goes back to 1996 when the Sierra Club began the campaign to stop a giant and unneeded [...]
On day #46 of the devastating oil spill that continues to dump oil into Australian seas, the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter released images of that spill plotted off Virginia’s coast.
The images were commissioned from SkyTruth who used NASA and other government generated satellite images to depict the Australian oil spill that as of September 3 [...]
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