As court challenges pile up, gas pipeline falls behind
Written by Gregory S. Schneider | The Washington Post
Protesters banging drums may get more attention, but what has really damaged the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline in 2018 has been quiet action taking place in courtrooms.
State NAACP to push 'Energy from God' bill
Written by Jeremy Lazarus | Richmond Free Press
Schools, churches, mosques and synagogues across Virginia could go solar, if the Virginia State Conference NAACP has its way.
The two ACP fracked gas pipelines being pushed through Virginia would more than double the greenhouse gas emissions for the state. This is being proposed at a time when the scientific community insists that we must reduce methane emissions by 35% in order to leave our children a sustainable future.
Solar power plants are common in North Carolina and Maryland. Virginia has more dirty fuel: petroleum, natural gas, coal and bio-mass plants.
Why doesn't Dominion Energy install a large, solar plant in Union Hill instead?
Two Numbers: Atlantic Coast Pipeline Would More than Double Dominion Energy Virginia’s Current Carbon Pollution
Written by Glen Besa | Blue Virginia
Today’s headline in the Washington Post, Global Carbon Reaches Record, begs the question in Virginia, what is Dominion Energy, our largest utility, doing about climate change?
The Last Gasp of Massive Resistance: Richmond’s 2019 Coliseum Scheme
Written by Jeff Thomas | Blue Virginia
On December 8, 2018, Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney led a march of more than a thousand people on the state Capitol to call for more funding for education. “Each and every day, there is a young man or a young woman who wakes up with a dream, and it is our job — as elected officials, as teachers, all working together — to give them the legs to stand on to achieve that dream,” Stoney said. “Unfortunately, the Commonwealth of Virginia has cut the legs from underneath many of our children.”
Open Letter to Air Pollution Control Board - Deny Permit for Union Hill Compressor Station
Written by Friends of Buckingham
Residents of Union Hill today sent an open letter to the members of the State Air Pollution Control Board urging them to deny the proposed permit for a natural gas compressor station in this predominantly African-American community in rural Buckingham County, Va.
Letter from Bath County Landowner William Limpert
Written by William LimpertDominion has recently filed for “Quick Take” in the courts against a large number of property owners in Virginia along the path of the proposed ACP. If the quick take is granted it will allow Dominion to immediately take possession of these properties, cut down their trees, and construct the pipeline on their property.
Del. Mark Keam on Removal of Two Air Board Members
Written by Del. Mark Keam
"I am hoping that this is nothing but a very badly botched personnel decision made in the worst possible timing.”
Never-Before-Seen Exposé of Dominion Energy’s Full History of Clean Energy Obstruction in Virginia
Written by Andrea Miller
Social justice groups,clean energy advocates, and state legislators joined Food & Water Watch at the Capitol to announce visionary legislation to move Off Fossil Fuels (OFF) by 2035 in Virginia, as well as a new historical assessment of Dominion Energy’s power grab in the state of Virginia.
Activists and Politicians Gather At Mason To Support ERA
Written by DANA NICKEL NEWS EDITOR | GMU Fourth Estate
“We are here because we have unfinished business,” Virginia House Delegate Jennifer Carroll Foy announced over a hushed crowd at Mason. “Women are not entitled to equality under the United States Constitution.”
The crowd was gathered outside of Mason’s Ike’s Dining Hall on Nov. 11 to listen to community activists and elected officials discuss their plans to make Virginia the 38th state to pass the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). If Virginia passes ERA, there would officially be enough states that have ratified ERA to make it an amendment in the U.S. Constitution.
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The con at the heart of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Written by Robert Zullo | Commentary Virginia Mercury News
It can’t be said enough, and it’s something that’s easy to lose sight of amid the labyrinthine legal and permitting debates around the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which could be getting federal approval to start full construction in Virginia any minute now.
Rev. Dr. William Barber Brings “Poor People’s Campaign” to Richmond; 100s “standing up to Dominion Energy and ecological devastation and poverty”
Written by lowkell | Blue Virginia
The following reports from last night’s “Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival” event in Richmond are courtesy of Del. Mark Keam, Weston Mathews of the Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice, environmental activist Lee Williams and David Martin.
Picture, if you will, a world of rigid hierarchies, where men control women’s lives, and women are used for their bodies.
Picking up the Mantle - A New Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
Written by Steve Hansen, PPC Hampton Roads Organizer and Loretta Kahn
"We are not left, we are not right, we are not conservative or liberal — this campaign is a moral call to address a distorted public policy agenda that leaves the most vulnerable behind." ~Dr. William Barber
Contact Us at virginia@poorpeoplescampaign.org
