What's New
Keeping Virginia Uranium-Free
The 2008 General Assembly rejected an industry-backed proposal to for a study mining and lift the moratorium on uranium mining. In the 1980s a statewide moratorium on uranium mining was enacted when a deposit was found along the Piedmont in Pittsylvania and Fauquier Counties in southern Virginia.
Virginia should not act to initiate or sanction a study on mining because of detrimental harm to our air, water, geology, and health. Environment Virginia is working to protect the moratorium put in place 25 years ago.
