Category Archives: Environment

What a few weeks it’s been. Rejecting claims of looming cataclysm, the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) issued Climate Change Reconsidered-II on September 17. This report by 50 experts documents actual planetary temperature, climate and weather in recent … Continue reading →

In the 20‐year history of the Department of Environmental Quality, Virginians have seen a series of environmental successes that cover a wide range of natural resource protection efforts in the Commonwealth. Significant improvements for Virginia’s environment have occurred while equally … Continue reading →

(Editor’s note: This is an important article because much of what is being said herein can likely become part of the charges that can be brought against Virginia farmers for the problems we confront in cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay.) … Continue reading →

According to the Capital Research Center, an education and research organization in Washington, D.C., activists are now using a process known as “sue-and-settle” to obtain policies favorable to their missions. First, activists sue government agencies such as the Environmental Protection … Continue reading →

Environmental alarmists are demanding that we embrace “revenue-neutral” carbon taxes and carbon dioxide regulations, before it’s “too late” to prevent “catastrophic” global warming, “monster” storms and rising seas that will “inundate our coastal cities.” Anyone dissenting from this “call to … Continue reading →