Issues Facing Virginia
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Virginia's Path to Clean Water
A guide for public officials and residents to keeping Virginia on course to fully restoring its waterways.
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Virginia's Agricultural Cost-Share Program
Virginia's Agricultural Cost-Share Program provides financial and technical support to farmers to implement farm conservation projects.
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Living Shorelines
Living shorelines are a proven natural approach to protecting tidal shorelines from erosion, restoring shorelines, protecting Virginia communities. They also offer many benefits to the environment. Find out more, including how to build yours.
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Atlantic Coast Natural Gas Pipeline
The proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline would have spanned more than 600 miles, crossing Virginia waterways more than a thousand times, threatening water quality throughout the Commonwealth and the Chesapeake Bay.
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Virginia's Stormwater Local Assistance Fund
Virginia's Stormwater Local Assistance Fund provides matching grants to help localities install efficient and effective pollution-control measures.
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Atlantic Menhaden
Menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus, are small, nutrient-packed fish that are central to the Chesapeake Bay's food chain and support one of the largest commercial fisheries on the Atlantic coast. As a result of their environmental and economic importance, management of the menhaden fishery is a political flashpoint across the region.
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Climate Change
How are warmer waters and temperatures experienced across the globe impacting the Chesapeake Bay?
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Runoff Pollution
Learn why runoff pollution is one of the most harmful sources of pollution and what we can do to help the Chesapeake Bay, home to more than 3,600 plants and animals.
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Sea-Level Rise
Cities and towns near the Chesapeake Bay are facing a major threat from sea level rise. The good news is that nature-based solutions can help us adapt to recurrent flooding.
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