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Virginia Organizing is a member of the Climate Equity Working Group and the Virginia Environmental Justice Collaborative.

Take action on the Draft Priority Climate Action Plan

Take action on the Draft Priority Climate Action Plan

Do you want to reduce greenhouse gases and improve housing throughout Virginia? Virginia's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is requesting feedback on its Draft Priority C ...

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Wise County Chapter and Partners to Hold Community Conversations on Nuclear Reactors

Wise County Chapter and Partners to Hold Community Conversations on Nuclear Reactors

From the article by Mike Still in the Kingsport Times-News: "The Clinch Coalition, Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards, Appalachian Peace Education Center, Virginia Organizing ...

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2024 Legislative Priorities

2024 Legislative Priorities

The 2024 General Assembly session begins Wednesday, January 10 and ends March 9. Our power as an organization is in the people who take action with us, and thanks to you we've bui ...

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July CLASS: Energy Justice 101

July CLASS: Energy Justice 101

For our Community Learning and Strategy Session (CLASS) on THURSDAY, July 6 at 7 p.m. on Zoom, we will be talking about Energy Justice. Come learn about how our energy s ...

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2023 Power Analysis

2023 Power Analysis

The annual Power Analysis conference was held in person this year for the first time since 2019! We were all happy to be together again at Massanetta Springs. 40 members of the St ...

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Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action | Featured Community Partner

Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action | Featured Community Partner

When you’re taking on a crisis as comprehensive as climate change, almost any thread you pull will lead back to it. For Dr. Jerome Paulson, his thread was lead poisoning among his ...

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Featured Partner | Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards (SAMS)

Featured Partner | Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards (SAMS)

The people at Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards (SAMS), a longstanding Joint Plan of Work partner of Virginia Organizing, have stood up to commonplace negative portrayals of ...

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What is RGGI?

What is RGGI?

(Scroll to the bottom for the comment link and directions.) In 2020, Virginia joined the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) through the passage of the Clean Energy and Comm ...

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ARTivism Virginia | Featured Community Partner

ARTivism Virginia | Featured Community Partner

A powerful movement needs artistic media that gives structure to the messages we carry and an outlet for the emotions we wish to convey. Media that inspires and motivates and teac ...

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What is Energy Burden?

What is Energy Burden?

To read a transcription of the text from this graphic, please click here. When people have to pay too much of their income for their electricity and heat, we call that energy ...

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