You may have read Our 2024 Common Agenda Environmental Briefing Book – now you can stream the content from Our 2024 Common Agenda Education Series! In a series of webinars, policy paper authors discuss and answer inquiries about the environmental challenges facing Virginia while providing practical, state-based policy options to address these challenges. Webinars cover environmental issues for clean water & flood resilience, land & wildlife conservation, climate & energy, good governance, and land use & transportation. Check them out below!

Our 2024 Common Agenda policy experts discuss practical, state-based policy options and answer inquiries about the environmental challenges facing Virginia’s water quality and flood resilience:

• Preventing Polluted Stormwater Runoff: presented by Brent Hunsinger, Friends of the Rappahannock
• Meeting Wastewater Upgrade Obligations: presented by Patrick Fanning, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
• Enforcing Water Quality Standards: presented by David Sligh, Wild Virginia
• Reducing Plastics, Litter, & Marine Debris: presented by Elly Boehmer Wilson, Environment Virginia
• Stopping False Solutions & Plastic-to-Fuels: presented by Elly Boehmer Wilson, Environment Virginia
• Stopping PFAS Pollution at its Source: presented by Jacqueline Goodrum, Wild Virginia
• Preventing Harms from Metals Mining: presented by Jessica Sims, Appalachian Voices
• Advancing Equitable Statewide Flood Planning: presented by Mary-Carson Stiff, Wetlands Watch
• Safeguarding Virginia’s Wetlands: presented by Betsy Nicholas, Potomac Riverkeeper Network

Our 2024 Common Agenda policy experts discuss practical, state-based policy options and answer inquiries about the environmental challenges facing Virginia’s land and wildlife conservation:

• Investing in Virginia’s Heritage & Future: presented by Alan Rowsome, Northern Virginia Land Trust
• Preserving Farmland: presented by Kevin Tate Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley
• Protecting Historic & Cultural Resources: presented by Max Hokit, American Battlefield Trust
• Investing in Conservation & Outdoor Recreation: presented by Kyle Lawrence, Shenandoah Valley Bicycling Coalition
• Strengthening Park Funding: presented by Josh Stutz, Friends of the James River State Park
• Assessing Virginia’s Tree Canopy Loss: presented by Ann Jurczyk, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
• Connecting Wildlife Habitats: presented by Jessica Roberts, Wild Virginia
• Ensuring Sustainable Fisheries: presented by Brent Hunsinger, Friends of the Rappahannock

Our 2024 Common Agenda policy experts discuss practical, state-based policy options and answer inquiries about the environmental challenges facing Virginia’s clean energy and climate justice transition:

• Achieving 100% Clean Energy AND Managing Technologies Unproven at Scale: presented by Blair St. Ledger Olson, Climate Cabinet Education
• Participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: presented by Nate Benforado, Southern Environmental Law Center
• Surging Demand from Data Centers: presented by Dan Holmes, Clean Virginia
• Preventing Pipeline Harms: presented by Jessica Sims, Appalachian Voices
• Powering Progress Through Rooftop Solar AND Expanding Access to Community Solar: presented by Ashish Kapoor, Piedmont Environmental Council
• Maximizing Offshore Wind Generation: presented by Eileen Woll, Sierra Club Virginia Chapter
• Cutting Energy Bills & Air Pollution with Energy Efficiency: presented by Lena Lewis, The Nature Conservancy

Our 2024 Common Agenda policy experts discuss practical, state-based policy options and answer inquiries about equitable policy to help address environmental challenges facing Virginia:

• Shifting Utilities’ Incentives for Affordable, Clean Energy: presented by Laura Gonzalez Guerrero, Clean Virginia
• Ensuring Access to Essential Services: presented by Elisabeth Chaves, Virginia Organizing
• Curbing Electric Utilities’ Political Influence: presented by Dan Holmes, Clean Virginia
• Advancing Environmental Justice: presented by Peter Anderson, Appalachian Voices
• Supporting Virginia’s Education Workforce: presented by Daria Christian, Friends of the Rappahannock

Our educational webinar also includes a Budget Training to help advocates understand how they can impact Virginia’s state budget to support our conversation goals. Our budget training is led by Mikaela Ruiz-Ramon, The Nature Conservancy; Nathan Thomson, James River Association, and Nikki Rovner, The Nature Conservancy.

Our 2024 Common Agenda policy experts discuss practical, state-based policy options and answer inquiries about land use and transportation challenges facing Virginia:

• Mitigating Data Center Development’s Impacts: presented by Kyle Hart, National Parks Conservation Association
• Deploying Utility-Scale Solar Responsibly: presented by Ashish Kapoor, Piedmont Environmental Council
• Unleashing Sustainable Housing Growth: presented by Stephen Wade, Partnership for Smarter Growth
• Accelerating Transportation Electrification: presented by Lena Lewis, The Nature Conservancy
• Making Buildings Cleaner & Safer: presented by McKenna Dunbar, Sierra Club Virginia Chapter
• Transforming Transportation: presented by Trip Pollard, Southern Environmental Law Center
• Modernizing Public Transit AND Expanding Rail: presented by Danny Plaugher, Virginians for High Speed Rail
• Saving Pedestrian Lives: presented by Amy Guzulaitis, Partnership for Smarter Growth
• Increasing Access to Bicycling: presented by Jim Durham, Virginia Bicycling Federation
• Ensuring Consistent Support for Trails: presented by Elliot Caldwell, East Coast Greenway Alliance