Clean Water & Flood Resilience Recap: 2025 Bill Outcomes
Virginia Conservation Network advocated for 25 bills this General Assembly session that protect communities from flooding, reduce toxic pollution in water, reduce plastic litter, and more.
Video: Designing Living Shorelines for Sea Level Rise in Virginia
Wetland Watch's Mary-Carson Stiff & Stacie McGraw recently hosted a webinar providing an overview of their new resource, "Designing Living Shorelines for Sea Level Rise in Virginia", which guides shoreline communities in addressing rising sea levels.
Designing Living Shorelines for Sea Level Rise in Virginia
Wetlands Watch released a new resource to help individuals or groups who are living or working along the shoreline seek sustainable and adaptive solutions to combat the challenges posed by rising sea levels and coastal hazards.
Bill of the Day: Investing in Flood Resilience and Preparedness
Virginia need a reliably resourced, coordinated, and comprehensive approach to flood preparedness and resilience.
Supporting Flood Victims of Tropical Storm Helene
Our Partners at Appalachian Voices are compiling a Hurricane Helene relief page that shares details about efforts to relief to impacted areas.
Flood Resilience in Appalachia Federal Policy Recommendations
ReImagine Appalachia, Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center, and the National Wildlife Federation released their Flood Resilience in Appalachia Federal Policy Recommendations, detailing a four-pillar flood resilience policy roadmap for Appalachia.
Report: Integrating Nature-Based Solutions & Risk Management
Engineering With Nature recently released a report that explores recommendations for incorporating nature-based solutions (NBS) into risk models, insurance coverage policies, and resilience financing.
Wetland and Water Protection Resource Guide
The Biden Administration recently released a resource guide, which includes input from several federal agencies, to serve as a resource for Tribes, states, territories, local governments, private land owners, and nongovernmental organizations to advance wetland and water resource protection.
Bay Act Resiliency Guidance
DEQ has updated the Bay Act resiliency guidance along with updated examples. A model ordinance, locality implementation checklist, resiliency assessment template, adaptation measure checklist, and nature-based adaptation measure list are also available.