The main reason why Virginia’s water use has dropped is the retirement of coal plants, according to Department of Environmental Quality reports.
Dwayne Yancey
Yancey is founding editor of Cardinal News. His opinions are his own. You can reach him at dwayne@cardinalnews.org or 540-529-1136.
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Virginia has a new climate office. It’s at George Mason University. Here’s what it does.
The researchers running the office plan to partner with Virginia Tech and other state universities, and to work with state agencies and business groups, partly those in agriculture.
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Could the Dominion-NextEra merger inspire the General Assembly to expand the State Corporation Commission? The constitution allows it.
Here are seven things to know about the three-member body that regulates state utilities, including how its members used to be elected.
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The future of Virginia Tech football (and the whole ACC) is being decided in Congress
When the U.S. Senate returns next month from its August recess, senators are set to vote on a consequential piece of legislation that, if passed, would see the federal government establish some far-reaching rules for college sports.
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New poll shows Spanberger approval rating has rebounded. Is it right?
Previous polls were taken in the immediate aftermath of redistricting and the budget dispute. Is it possible that those have now faded from view?
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Virginia is developing a piecemeal data center moratorium. The potential impacts are complicated.
Here are seven things that might flow from even a partial moratorium on data center development in Virginia.
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An enslaved man in Roanoke County was once given 10 years to raise the money to buy his freedom — or risk seeing his family sold at auction
An exhibit currently at the Harrison Museum of African American Culture in Roanoke explores how in the antebellum era, freedom from slavery often came with strings attached.
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On a square-foot basis, cannabis growhouses use more power than data centers. Why isn’t their electricity use being taxed?
In legalizing retail sales of cannabis, Virginia has set the stage for the equivalent of up to 148 data centers, if Virginians consume weed at the same rate as those in Washington state. If we match Michigan’s pot consumption, we’re looking at the equivalent of 78 data centers.
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16 senators sign letter urging Trump administration to declare Roanoke Valley native held in Russia as ‘wrongfully detained’
They say the legal designation would “maximize U.S. government coordination and advance negotations” to secure the release of Chuck Zimmerman and other Americans held in Russia.
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The two proposed dam projects in Wise County are part of a nationwide renaissance of hydropower
Hydropower was once given up for dead. Now, across the country, private developers are looking to pumped storage hydro projects as a way to provide more ‘dispatchable’ energy for the grid.
