Category Archives: Environment

Watermelon Greening of Virginia

Governor Kaine’s June 10th executive order seeks to green state government through reducing energy usage. However, it may result in a loss of green for the state if cost can’t be fully considered in the decision making process. Continue reading

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Is CO2 a Threat?

To listen to the politicians global warming is an eminent threat that needs to be dealt with immediately and swiftly. Here are some reasons that make me feel legislation, such as the Waxman-Markey bill, is both unnecessary and unwise. Continue reading

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Virginia’s Oil and Gas Needs Can be Met Right off our Shores

Drilling for oil and natural gas off our coast makes economic and national security sense. We need to start exploring now in order to know how much we can produce. Continue reading

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The Folly of Cap and Trade

Cap and trade would be bad for America. One Virginian tells us why. Continue reading

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Climate Change Family Feuds a Coming?

Tolstoy opened his novel Anna Karenina with the truism: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” If we peek in the back door of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), we see a family in unique discord. Continue reading

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