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Study finds cleaner air leads to more Atlantic hurricanes

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  • – Associated Press – 5/11/22
Daniel Shaffer May 20, 2022 Big Picture Read more

Bill stripping citizen air and water boards of permitting power headed to governor

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  • – Virginia Mercury – 2/28/22
Daniel Shaffer March 15, 2022 Regional Issues Read more

Limpert: Mountain Valley Pipeline will be a health hazard

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  • – The Roanoke Times – 3/9/22
Daniel Shaffer March 15, 2022 Regional Issues Read more

Air and water board bills hurt businesses and communities

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  • – Virginia Mercury – 2/21/22
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  • Va. Senate Democrats pass GOP bill to remove power of citizen environmental boards
  • Bill to strip state environmental boards of permitting authority is a big mistake
Daniel Shaffer February 25, 2022 Regional Issues Read more

Senate panel advances bill to strip citizen boards’ environmental permitting power

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  • – Virginia Mercury – 2/8/22
Daniel Shaffer February 11, 2022 Regional Issues Read more

MVP appeals Virginia Air Board vote on compressor station permit

Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC (MVP) on December 31 filed an appeal with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals over the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board’s December 3 denial of a permit for the Lambert Compressor Station, a project associated with the Southgate Extension of the MVP,

Daniel Shaffer January 15, 2022 Pipeline Updates Read more

Virginia regulatory board denies Mountain Valley Pipeline compressor station permit

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  • – Virginia Mercury – 12/3/21
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  • MVP Southgate Developers Eye ‘Next Steps’ After Virginia DEQ Panel Denies Permit
Daniel Shaffer December 20, 2021 Regional Issues Read more

Exploratory drilling for copper, zinc underway in Pittsylvania County as new environmental coalition forms

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  • – Danville Register & Bee – 12/13/21
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  • Press Pause on metal mining in Virginia
Daniel Shaffer December 20, 2021 Regional Issues Read more

Ghazala F. Hashmi column: Mountain Valley Pipeline is unjust and our state board must deny new permits

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  • – Richmond Times-Dispatch – 11/25/21
Daniel Shaffer December 3, 2021 Regional Issues Read more

Chatham residents and others to speak against Lambert Compressor Station at air board hearing

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  • – Appalachian Voices – 12/1/21
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  • Residents Near Proposed Lambert Compressor Station Push Back, Cite Environmental Racism
Daniel Shaffer December 3, 2021 Regional Issues Read more
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Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance

The Allegheny Blue-Ridge Alliance (ABRA) is a coalition of conservation organizations dedicated to promoting and protecting the environmental integrity of the Allegheny-Blue Ridge region, which encompasses the Central Appalachian Highlands area of Virginia and West Virginia.

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