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Dominion Energy invested $46 million to construct a 200,000-panel solar array on 125 acres its owns along Lucky Hill Road near Remington. The installation started generating electricity in October 2017. These things will not be built . . . in Reston. They wonât be built where our Democratic colleagues live. Theyâll be built out here in rural areas and with untold consequences Del. Todd Gilbert (R-Shenandoah County)
By Sarah Vogelsong
Spotsylvania County: 6,350. Fauquier County: 3,500. King William County: 1,262.
Each number recited by Del. Charles Poindexter (R-Franklin) to a House panel during the second week of the 2021 General Assembly session represented the number of acres that local governments in Virginia have approved for solar projects to date.
This article first appeared in the Virginia Mercury.
When Del. Tony Wilt, R-Rockingham, introduced a budget amendment funding a study on creating a new 43-mile long rail trail in the Shenandoah Valley, the odds of the proposal making it into the final budget for the governor to sign looked slim.
After Wilt’s amendment was stricken from the House version of the budget, the idea appeared doomed.
However, thanks to the efforts of his regional ally, Sen. Emmet Hanger, R-Augusta, the measure made it into the Senate’s budget to be adopted by the two bodies’ conference committee in October. Now, a longshot proposal with broad popularity is set to take its first official step towards becoming a reality.
Virginia groups sue U.S. Forest Service over new environmental review standards Paddling on the South Fork of the Shenandoah River in the George Washington National Forest. (Source: Virginia.org) By Sarah Vogelsong | January 11, 2021 at 7:51 AM EST - Updated January 11 at 7:51 AM
Four Virginia organizations have joined a coalition of Southern Appalachian environmental groups that are suing the U.S. Forest Service over changes to federal environmental rules that determine how much scrutiny regulators must give activities like logging and utility projects in national forests.
The rule, which was finalized by President Donald Trump’s administration Nov. 19, aims “to bypass the fundamental requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act” and “will cause significant harm to publicly owned national forests across the country and to members of the public who use those lands,” the lawsuit contends.
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