Welcome to Environment Virginia

Environment Virginia is a citizen-based environmental advocacy organization that works on behalf of its members. Our core mission is simple: to protect Virginia's clean air, clean water, and open space. In practice, our professional staff combines independent research, practical ideas, and tough-minded advocacy to preserve our state's wild places and natural beauty, protect Virginians from toxic pollution, reduce our material consumption, build sustainable transportation and communities, and shift to 100% clean energy. Overcoming powerful special interests invested in the status quo is no easy task, so we work tirelessly for our members, the environment, and the future.

Building a greener future.

		Growing our clean-energy economy. By taking advantage of our natural resources to power Virginia with clean energy such as solar and wind, we could bring up to 44,000 new green jobs to our state while we cut down on global warming emissions. We helped win support for President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the down payment on a growing clean-energy economy for our Commonwealth and our country. Contact: Advocate J.R. Tolbert

		Restoring the Chesapeake Bay. Last winter, members like you called on the Virginia General Assembly to save funding for efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay. They listened. Now, with your support, Environment Virginia is calling on EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to hold polluters of the Bay accountable for their actions. Contact: Senior Environmental Attorney John Rumpler

		Protecting our forests. Thousands of acres within the George Washington National Forest would have been vulnerable to logging and road-building if it hadn't been for our efforts and those of our allies. Now timber companies can't touch the George Washington National Forest without Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack's say-so. Contact: Federal director Anna Aurilio

Building a greener future.

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