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Recent Blog Entries

While most of the Commonwealth’s attention has begun to turn more to the steadily gearing up state gubernatorial race, Virginia Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine recently made waves on Capital Hill that will continue to ripple across the State … Continue reading →

The House of Representatives is set to vote today on H.R. 3 – the Northern Route Approval Act – which would eliminate the need for a presidential permit in implementing the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. While the bill directly empowers … Continue reading →

Reblogged from Appalachian Citizens' Law Center: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit today invalidated the 2007 version of the nationwide permit used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to authorize the dumping of coal mining waste … Continue reading →

By a vote of 17 to 9, the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Power passed the Northern Route Approval Act (H.R. 3) yesterday in an attempt to force the Obama Administration to issue a decision regarding the controversial … Continue reading →

For those of you attending the Environment Virginia Symposium at VMI, I highly recommend attending a panel that I am moderating on fracking.  The panel is from 3:30-4:45 tomorrow in the Turman Room, I’ve posted the details below. The panel … Continue reading →