Issues

Layla H. v. Commonwealth is a lawsuit filed in Feb. 2022 by 13 youth plaintiffs from across Virginia against the Commonwealth represented by Our Children's Trust.  Rappahannock Group invited the youth plaintiff's and their attorney to present their lawsuit at a virtual event on August 14th. The link here is a recording of the virtual event.

The case argues that the Commonwealth's historic and ongoing permitting of fossil fuels is causing and contributing to the climate crisis, and violating the plaintiff's constitutional rights.  The youth plaintiff's assert that Virginia has violated it's public trust duty to protect elements of the public domain, including atmosphere, required to preserve constitutional rights.  They also assert that the Commonwealth of Virginia continues to rely primarily on fossil fuels as it's main energy source and is thereby exacerbating climate change by polluting the atmosphere with excessive greenhouse gas emissions.

The youth plaintiff's and their attorneys will appear in court on September 16,, 2022 at 11:00a.m. EDT where they will argue before the court their opposition to the Commonwealth's Demurrer (response which lists the reasons why the state thinks the case should be dismissed).       

                         

                    

 

Pass on Plastic is a campaign designed to reduce and eventually eliminate plastic produce bags.

 

 Advanced Recycling Briefing

 

Other Issues

Electric Cars - Everything you wanted to know

Fracking OrdinanceKing George County, Use of Zoning Laws to Regulate Fracking 

http://www.king-george.va.us/news-and-announcements/announcements/taylorsville-basin---bos-meeting-powerpoint-slides-feb-4-2014.php

To see the text of the Ordinance, click on the link at the bottom of the page named: “Public Hearing - Amendments to Comp Plan and Zoning Ordinance Re Drilling for Oil and/or Natural Gas Public Hearing - Amendments to Comp Plan and Zoning Ordinance Re Drilling for Oil and/or Natural Gas”

 

Fracking - Taylorsville Basin, Health and Environmental Impacts, Tightened State-Wide regulations which includes a health impact assesment in conjunction with health experts

 

Clean Power Plan - Commonwealth of Virginia, Implementaion to focus on renewable energy sources instead of coal, gas and nuclear

 

Uranium Mining - South Western Virginia, Keep the ban, despite industry lawsuit!

 

Retire Dirty Coal Plants and Stop Mountain Top RemovalSouth Western Virginia, Over 500 mountain tops have been destroyed digging for coal

 

Nuclear Power Plant - Lake Anna, stop Dominion Power from building another nuclear plant at Lake Anna

 

Gas Pipeline - Western Virginia, respect property owner rights and prevent building the pipeline accross farms, streams and forrests

 

Offshore Drilling - Virginia Beach, prevent offshore drilling and get Virginia Beach City Council to reverse it's support

 

Offshore and Land-based Wind Energy - Virginia Beach and Western Virginia, force Dominion power to start building offshore and on-land wind turbines, including wind power as one of it's future energy sources

 

Solar Energy - Virginia, force Dominion power to start building industrial solar plants as one of it's future energy sources