Green New Deal VA
@GreenNewDealVA
A movement to create thousands of good paying jobs, eliminate poverty in the Commonwealth, and address climate change. Time to think big. Join us!
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Richmond solar proposal could avoid $19.4M in energy costs at 39 city buildings | Guest column via @RTDOpinions
Send a Letter ☀️ Come to the Richmond City Council Meeting this Monday, September 28 at 6pm
TELL RICHMOND CITY COUNCIL: VOTE YES ON SOLAR POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENT.
No amendments. No delay.
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It’s outrageous that the EEOC, the agency that enforces laws that ban workplace discrimination, have stopped class action complaints by federal workers.
Nobody should face discrimination at work. Solidarity with @AFGEnational and federal workers!
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Loudoun County, other Virginia localities consider hitting the brakes on data center development
Take it from a Floridian: You don’t want NextEra in Virginia | Guest column via @RTDOpinions
How Virginia became the world’s data center capital and how it’s going
This is what happens when people hear repeatedly from elected officials (and some scientists!) that “natural gas lowers emissions.”
Please stop saying this without adding “relative to coal” and “but we still need to mostly phase it out.”
Please and thank you.
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“VA will put a data center up your ass if you ain’t looking” 🤣
If you made $53,000 a day or $20 million per year since Jesus was born you would still not make the profit Shell made in 2022.
It’s time for Shell to Stop Drilling and Start Paying for the climate damage they’ve caused.
#MakeShellPay# #actonclimate# #climate# #energy# #renewables#
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It’s time for “Business” to be good to Virginia, not the other way around. #PayYourFareShare# #TaxBigTech# #PublicHealthOverCorporateWealth#
I appreciate all the grassroots support we are getting on this tour!
I appreciate all the grassroots support we are getting on this tour!
Millions of Americans are still drinking water with lead in it, but Congress just cut $125 million in lead service line replacement funding.
Access to clean water is a human right.
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The most severe marine heatwave on Earth has developed off the coast of China, where ocean temperatures are up to 5.5°C (10°F) above normal.
NOAA has categorized this as a beyond extreme Category 5 marine heatwave.
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Is Virginia heading for a recession? State leaders say not yet #axiosrichmond#
We’re just over a month out from COP30.
CO2 levels are higher than they’ve been in around 12 million years.
Maybe, just maybe, the capitalists & lobbyists aren’t REALLY trying to fix this...
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Human's are causing the Earth's sixth mass extinction. 83% of wild mammals have already been pushed past the brink.
If nature goes, its taking us with it. No time to wait.
#ActOnClimate# #biodiversity# #natureneedshalf# #biodiversity#
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In the dead of night, House Republicans used an obscure law to overturn the will of local communities and make it easier to pollute public lands in three Western states. They’re making it clear whose voice matters to them, and it’s not the peoples’.
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Humans are creating the third great extinction. If we don't change - 99.9% of critically endangered species will be lost & it will take the earth more than 3 million yrs to recover.
We have solutions to the #climate# crisis, implement them. #ActOnClimate#
#climateaction#
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Imagine needing to buy water on a hot day only to find the price went up because of the weather or worse, because a company decided YOU should pay more because of your search history.
This is wrong. My bill bans electronic shelf labels and surveillance pricing in grocery stores.
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