The Sierra Club and SELC respond to the U.S. Supreme Court overturning a lower court decision that limited the U.S. Forest Service’s authority to issue a permit to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP).
Gov. Northam has announced the appointment of Jehmal Hudson to the State Corporation Commission (SCC). Hudson, from Arlington, Va., would be one of three SCC commissioners elected by the General Assembly. Over the next few years, the SCC will play a key role in ensuring implementation of the Clean Economy [...]
VCN Partner organizations calls for the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) to extend its moratorium on utility disconnections during the COVID-19 pandemic.
More than 25 Virginia Conservation Network partners have released statements in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and countless others whose names we may or may not know.
VCN WELCOMES UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND SUMMER INTERNS The University of Richmond School of Law Summer Public Service Fellowship Program provides summer funding to students working in qualifying government, nonprofit, and private sector employment settings. The Fellowship Program makes it financially possible for students to gain valuable, but unpaid, [...]
Happy Earth Day! Fifty years ago today, advocates mobilized more than 20 million people to demand action on the environmental challenges of the time. Today, Earth Day is observed in around 190 countries, celebrated by almost 100,000 organizations, and is the largest civic observance in the world. While we can’t [...]
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it had suspended enforcement of U.S. environmental laws indefinitely, blaming the global COVID-19 pandemic. With this lawless and unprecedented decision, the EPA is avoidably placing communities in danger through unchecked air pollution and other pollution that threatens our air, water, land and wildlife resources [...]
VCN Network Partners and advocates with VCEA bill patrons Sen. McClellan and Del. Sullivan. Updates on VCN Priorities VCEA heading to the Governor's desk (HB1526/SB851). In a whirlwind 18-hours, the Senate version of VCEA (SB851) cleared the House after defeating several floor amendments. It was then passed by the Senate this morning [...]
The Virginia legislature has passed the Virginia Clean Economy Act, establishing the Commonwealth as a national leader in the fight against climate change!