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Virginia’s largest utility provider has faced a backlash from the state’s environmental community since it announced plans to build a new, large fossil fuel facility in Chesterfield.

Over the course of three hours on Thursday evening, the beige-paneled walls of the SpringHill Suites Hotel in Chester, Virginia played host to a sometimes-contentious meeting between Dominion Energy, the state’s largest utility provider, and residents of the Chesterfield community, where Dominion has proposed to build a new natural gas power plant.

Nearby Residents and Environmentalists Criticize New Dominion Natural Gas Power Plant As a ‘Slap In the Face’

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Mass Sloth Deaths in Florida Show Why the Wildlife Trade Is a Pandemic Risk

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Necropsy reports from sloths imported by a planned Orlando tourist attraction document stressed animals riddled with bacteria, parasites and viruses. Scientists say the situation is a warning about the threat the booming wildlife trade poses to human health.

When pathologists cut open dead sloths from a planned Florida tourist attraction, they found a plethora of pathogens.

Mass Sloth Deaths in Florida Show Why the Wildlife Trade Is a Pandemic Risk

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A Water Crisis Has The ‘Poster Boys’ of Iowa Farming Ready to Talk Regulation

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More than a decade of voluntary farm conservation programs hasn’t gotten the state far enough on water quality, the Lobe Rangers say.

ROCKWELL CITY, Iowa—James Hepp is sick of excuses.

A Water Crisis Has The ‘Poster Boys’ of Iowa Farming Ready to Talk Regulation

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The Terrible Combined With the Good

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Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and North Carolina reporter Lisa Sorg as they explain how a new N.C. ratepayer bill would put the brakes on data centers while incentivizing the use of fossil fuels.

The Ratepayer Protection Act, making its way through the North Carolina legislature, conjoins two opposing ideas.

The Terrible Combined With the Good

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