by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 1, 2020 | Events, Pollution - Other Sources
County Waste/Green Ridge has filed a Notice of Intent and Part A Permit Application with the Department of Environmental Quality to develop a 1200-acre Landfill in eastern Cumberland County. This Heavy Industrial Facility will have a significant impact on the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 1, 2020 | Environmental Justice, Events
The Poor People’s Campaign March on Washington is gathering momentum. In 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others called for a “revolution of values” in America. They sought to build a broad, fusion movement that could unite poor and impacted...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 29, 2020 | Events, Sustainability
Tish O’Dell, Community Organizer for Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, https://celdf.org will be speaking at University of Richmond Law School on Wednesday March 4, Noon-1 pm, Building 203, Room 114. University Map Tish has been a leading advocate in the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 26, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Events, Spiritual Ecology
On Wednesday December 11, 2019, The Rt. Rev. Susan E. Goff, Bishop Suffragan and Ecclesiastical Authority, Episcopal Diocese of Virginia came to Buckingham to see and hear for herself what social and environmental injustice looks like on the ground. Her first stop was...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 22, 2019 | Events, Press Releases, Spiritual Ecology
NETWORK Continues Nationwide Series of Rural Roundtables in Virginia VIRGINIA — Sister Simone Campbell, SSS, Executive Director of NETWORK Advocates for Catholic Social Justice and leader of Nuns on the Bus will meet with residents and community leaders from around...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Oct 29, 2019 | Compressor Stations, Events, Regulatory Permit Process
Chilling after a hopeful morning in court at Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s [CBF] Richmond headquarters, a few doors down from the Fourth Circuit Court, Tuesday, October 29, 2019. Jon Mueller of CBF, David Neal & Greg Buppert of Southern Environmental Law...