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Dominion Virginia Power Planning Virginia's First Large-Scale Solar Project
2015-01-26 17:58:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Dominion Virginia Power has filed an application with the Virginia State Corporation Commission to build Virginia's first large-scale solar facility. read more
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Virginia Plastics Recycling Program Sees 40 Percent Increase in 2014
2015-01-25 21:48:00| Waste Age
<a href="http://www.fredericksburg.com/">Fredericksburg.com</a> A state program to recycle plastic pesticide containers collected 40 percent more pounds of them in 2014 than in the previous year. read more
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West Virginia House passes energy act repeal overwhelmingly
2015-01-23 18:51:20| Energy - Topix.net
The portfolio requires generating 25 percent of electricity with renewable or alternative power sources by 2025. Some coal-burning technologies qualify.
After the warmest year on record, West Virginia feels the heat
2015-01-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Fridays news that 2014 was the Earths hottest year on record could not have been timelier for West Virginia, where a dissident member of the Board of Education recently altered new teaching standards to reflect his personal doubts about climate change. The board member, L. Wade Linger Jr., didnt like the sound of a sixth-grade study plan mentioning the rise in global temperatures over the past century. So he had the language changed to: rise and fall. The temperature rises and falls all...
West Virginia Revisits Science Standards
2015-01-13 07:05:59| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: West Virginia joined 25 other states several years ago to help develop a set of standards for teaching science across the United States. Among other topics, the standards acknowledge the overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is real and has been profoundly affected by human activity. And last month, the West Virginia Board of Education announced that it was among the first 13 states and the District of Columbia to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards, which it said would...
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