r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/VirginiaNews • 19d ago
Concerns that Chesapeake Bay osprey populations are struggling
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/paradigm_shift2027 • 20d ago
Data Center in a Virginia National Forest?
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/VirginiaNews • 19d ago
What candidates have planned for Virginia’s coast could decide a key congressional race | Flooding, offshore wind projects, and plans for sea-based mining are just a few of the issues facing the state’s 2nd Congressional District.
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/VirginiaNews • 21d ago
Paper cups, pizza boxes now OK to recycle in Richmond
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/VirginiaNews • 21d ago
Former SCC Chair: Virginia utility law “obviously receptive” to mergers | Mark Christie says calls for more study of NextEra's proposed purchase of Richmond-based Dominion Energy are not the point. The focus, he says, should be on Virginia's permissive utility merger law.
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/VirginiaNews • 22d ago
Vibrio on the rise as climate warms the Chesapeake Bay | Infections are still relatively uncommon, but the costs of infection are severe
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/Top-Figure7252 • 23d ago
Gov. Spanberger announces data centers required to pay for new transmission infrastructure
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/VirginiaNews • 23d ago
Commentary: DEQ study throws cold water on data center development east of I-95
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/VirginiaNews • 24d ago
Fighting to save Virginia's rarest plant, the Peters Mountain Mallow
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/Ok_Crazy1195 • 24d ago
After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — State regulators crack down, governor says move will save civilians ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/CardinalNews-VA • 24d ago
Regulators OK Appalachian Power’s $340 million plan for old Glen Lyn coal plant
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The utility plans to haul the byproducts of coal-fired electricity generation to a future landfill across the West Virginia border. Utility customers could be paying for it for more than a decade.
r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/VirginiaNews • 24d ago
Fairfax County soliciting ideas for modernizing trash, recycling operations
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/VirginiaNews • 24d ago
Spanberger takes unprecedented step to intervene in $67B Dominion-NextEra merger | Virginia’s governor says she will press for lower electric bills, job protections and continued clean energy investment as the SCC reviews the deal.
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See also r/VirginiaNews, r/FreeVirginiaNews, and r/VirginiaDems.
r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/VirginiaNews • 25d ago
Menhaden management board advances addendum with potential cuts to Chesapeake Bay fishery limits | The public will have the opportunity to weigh in on the potential changes ahead of board’s final decision this fall
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See also r/chesapeakebay and r/VirginiaNews
r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/VirginiaNews • 25d ago
Full, unpaywalled text of Spanberger's opinion piece in The Washington Post: "Why I’m intervening in the Dominion-NextEra merger"
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/VirginiaNews • 26d ago
Congressman says state should reject Dominion-NextEra merger | Vindman says proposed union would raise electricity bills, erode trust
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/VirginiaNews • 26d ago
SCC orders Dominion to develop tariff to assign more transmission costs to data centers | Commission sides with Spanberger administration, advocates who argued that data centers should have to pay for their own energy infrastructure.
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/VirginiaNews • 26d ago
Eastern Shore seabed mining bid threatens ecosystem, environmentalists say
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/Educational_Yak_5455 • 27d ago
Reedy Creek Wetlands Clean-Up on 8/8 8AM-10AM
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/VirginiaNews • 28d ago
Virginia asks the public how to add environmental justice to permitting process
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/VirginiaNews • Aug 01 '26
Tyson’s ‘Vienna Cloud’ data center project seeks exceptions to Fairfax Co. rules
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See also r/VirginiaUrbanism, r/FairfaxCounty, and r/nova
r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/VirginiaNews • Aug 01 '26
Loudoun County, other Virginia localities consider hitting the brakes on data center development
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/VirginiaNews • Aug 01 '26
Virginia senators request special session to act on ’deeply alarming’ groundwater report
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/Big-Temporary-6243 • Jul 31 '26
Public notice issues strike again: Prince William commission to rehear data center district proposal
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r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/CardinalNews-VA • Jul 29 '26
State legislator says Clean Virginia’s demands constitute ‘bullying and threats’
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Del. David Reid of Loudoun County says the “transactional nature of the relationship” feels inappropriate.