The Virginia Environmental Assembly brings together conservation leaders from across the Commonwealth to discuss our Common Agenda to protect Virginia’s natural resources. This annual conference is hosted by Virginia Conservation Network, the partnership of more than 100 Virginia environmental organizations. Each year, this conference is hosted in a different region [...]
The Virginia Conservation Network (VCN) has now released Our Common Agenda - the 2020 Environmental Briefing Book. Our Common Agenda is written by VCN’s partners - Virginia’s top conservation advocates. Published annually, it showcases the environmental community’s collective state-level policy priorities in the coming year. This book displays the breadth [...]
The Virginia Conservation Network's Land & Water Policy Manager calls on all levels of government to support Virginia's cleanup plan and increase pollution reductions in the face of climate change.
The State Air Pollution Control Board will vote on the final regulations to allow the Commonwealth to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), which will make Virginia the first Southern state to take such a bold step in reducing carbon pollution from power plants.
On Saturday, December 1st, Virginia’s conservation community convened in multiple locations across the Commonwealth for a preview of what’s in store for our natural resources and landscapes in the 2019 General Assembly session. Traditionally, the General Assembly Preview has taken place only in Richmond. In order to better accommodate the [...]
On September 7th and 8th, Virginia’s conservation community convened in Williamsburg for the Virginia Environmental Assembly and Virginia Conservation Network (VCN)'s Annual Meeting, an annual two-day conference bringing experienced and emerging conservation leaders together to learn, strategize, and network. This year’s event had record attendance from VCN Network Partners, elected [...]
We are proud to report that on Monday, January 23rd, Virginia Conservation Network (VCN) hosted its largest Conservation Lobby Day in recent history. Over 200 conservation organizations and activists from across the Commonwealth joined together in Richmond to hold nearly 100 meetings with their state legislators and urge them to [...]
Mary Rafferty will join the VCN team as Executive Director on December 1, 2016. The Board of Directors of the Virginia Conservation Network is pleased to announce that Mary Rafferty will be joining VCN as its Executive Director. Mary has spent the last nine years working with nonprofits [...]