Great news from the Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition:
The Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition lauded Old Dominion Electric Cooperative’s announcement today to delay plans for what would be the largest coal-fired power plant in Virginia. The temporary halt will allow the company, its customers, government officials and the conservation community to explore alternatives that will [...]
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. [...]
From Kate Pollard, Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Virginia coordinator.
Coal Ash. It’s Toxic. It’s Everywhere. We Must Act Now.
Right now communities across Virginia, and throughout the country, are exposed to heavy metals such as arsenic, lead and mercury when hazardous materials from coal ash disposal sites seep into our drinking water. The result — increased [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
Check out our new promotional! video for Hands Across the Sand! It was produced by Ivy Main, our wonderful Renewable Energy Chair. It “stars” Chesapeake Bay group chairperson Terra Pascarosa, William Reyes a local business owner, former Commander of the Norfolk Naval Station Joe Bouchard, and Ari Lawrence, the Virginia Chapter chairperson with Surfrider Foundation.
The [...]
Glen Besa, Director of the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter, offered the following statement in response to President Obama’s announcement that, in addition to continuing the moratorium on drilling permits for new deepwater wells and delaying in planned exploration off Alaska’s coast, Virginia Lease Sale 220 is canceled.
“The economic and environmental disaster that is currently [...]
The Federal Minerals Management Service (MMS) has called for seismic surveying to explore for oil and gas along the Atlantic. Seismic testing represents the first step in offshore oil drilling and is extremely dangerous to fish and marine life.
Click here to tell MMS to keep air guns out of sensitive areas to include the [...]
![[Mock] Oil Spill Hits Virginia Beach](http://vasierraclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/WindNotOil2-150x150.jpg)
As the Gulf Coast oil catastrophe quickly grows into one of the largest environmental disasters in United States history, Hampton Roads residents rallied in Virginia Beach on Friday to call for a permanent moratorium on offshore drilling and a renewed focus on developing wind farms off Virginia’s coasts instead.
“The Gulf Coast oil spill disaster [...]
Hands Across The Sand is now a national day of action Saturday, June 26! On hundreds of beaches across the U.S., people of all walks of life will be joining hands to draw a line in the sand to say “No” to offshore drilling and “Yes” to clean renewable energy.
The Sierra Club, Surfrider [...]
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