Coming Clean – By Michael Brune – The Sierra Club – With nearly all the results from Tuesday’s election now final, those of us fighting for a healthy planet and healthy communities can claim some major victories all across the country. But it wasn’t just candidates who won. Election Day was also a big victory…
Coming Clean – By Michael Brune – This year, Virginians will elect a new governor, one of only two gubernatorial elections this year, the other being in New Jersey. At the moment, Terry McAuliffe is leading climate denier and attorney general Ken Cuccinelli in the polls, but a lot can happen between now and November…
Conservation Groups Applaud Decision By Glynn Wilson – The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, a division of the U.S. Department of the Interior, announced Monday that it will lease about 113,000 acres off the coast of Virginia for commercial wind energy development. As part of President Obama’s comprehensive plan to move the economy toward domestic…
