As the Trump administration moves full speed ahead on boosting the oil and fossil fuel industry, opposition to increased pipeline construction is cropping up in different communities around the country. McClatchy highlights how the government and energy companies’ use of eminent domain to build pipelines through private property is turning rural voters in Trump country […]
Chemical company Dupont Co. will pay Virginia a stunning $50 million to clean up decades of mercury pollution. The proposed settlement is the largest natural resource settlement in the state’s history and the eighth largest in the nation, state and federal officials said. “Today’s settlement, the largest of its kind in Virginia history, is the […]
Thick smoke covered a Virginia town Wednesday after a CSX train derailed and thousands of gallons of crude oil spilled into the James River. The City Of Lynchburg said that the train was carrying crude oil and three or four of its 13 cars were destroyed. [blackoutgallery id=”332782″] “There is some spillage in the river of crude oil,” Lynchburg city […]
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