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You may have read Our 2025 Common Agenda Environmental Briefing Book—now you can stream content from our 2025 Common Agenda Education Series! In a series of webinars, environmental experts discuss key and/or emerging issues facing Virginia, highlighting their importance, the policies and programs shaping the issues, and the opportunities to address the issues at the state level. Webinars cover topics like clean water & flood resilience, land use & transportation, climate & energy, and land & wildlife conservation. Check them out below!

Hear from environmental experts as they discuss and answer inquiries about the environmental issues facing Virginia from Our 2025 Common Agenda. Clean Water & Flood Resilience speakers explore how these issues are important to Virginia’s environmental landscape, the current policies and programs shaping the issues, and the opportunities to address the issues at the state level.

• Investments in Water: presented by Jay Ford, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
• Flood Resiliency: presented by Emily Steinhilber, Environmental Defense Fund
• Virginia Fisheries: presented by Brent Hunsinger, Friends of the Rappahannock

Hear from environmental experts as they discuss and answer inquiries about the environmental issues facing Virginia from Our 2025 Common Agenda. Land Use & Transportation speakers explore how these issues are important to Virginia’s environmental landscape, the current policies and programs shaping the issues, and the opportunities to address the issues at the state level.

• Sustainable Housing Growth: presented by Richard Hankins, Partnership for Smarter Growth
• Public Transit: presented by Stephanie Power, RVA Rapid Transit
• Walkable, Bikeable Communities: presented by Brantley Tyndall, Bike Walk RVA

Climate & Energy speakers explore how these issues are important to Virginia’s environmental landscape, the current policies and programs shaping the issues, and the opportunities to address the issues at the state level.

• Data Centers & Energy Demand: presented by Bob Shippee, Sierra Club Virginia Chapter
• Transportation Electrification: presented by Cheri Conca, Sierra Club Virginia Chapter
• Distributed Energy Resources: presented by Emma Clancy, Southern Environmental Law Center
• Deploying Large-Scale Solar while Protecting Natural Resources: presented by Emma Clancy, Southern Environmental Law Center & Patrick Fanning, Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Land & Wildlife Conservation speakers explore how these issues are important to Virginia’s environmental landscape, the current policies and programs shaping the issues, and the opportunities to address the issues at the state level.

• Funding for Land Conservation: presented by Mikaela Ruiz-Ramón, The Nature Conservancy
• Wildlife Crossings & Corridors: presented by Erin Sito, Wildlands Network
• Invasive Plants: presented by Lauren Taylor, Blue Ridge PRISM