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County Road Plan Hitting Some Bumps

Some Supervisors Say It's Taking Too Long

Thursday, July 23, 2009

The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors and its Planning Commission are feuding over changes in the county’s transportation plan, an exhaustive blueprint for building and maintaining roads and highways over the next two decades, according to county officials and e-mail correspondence. Read story and 1 comment »

State to Monitor Air Pollution From Old Plants

Program Could Become National Model, Environmentalist Says

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Virginia officials announced Tuesday a groundbreaking initiative to monitor pollution spewed from power plants and other facilities built before passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act. Read story »

Restoration Of River In Fauquier Stirs Hope

Groups Say Effort May Inspire Similar Projects

Saturday, June 13, 2009

When Dennis Liberson bought 119 acres in Delaplane in Fauquier County three years ago, he thought the segment of Bolling Brook that ran through the property looked nice. He didn't know that he would be spending a lot of his time and money transforming the creek into something new. Read story and 2 comments »

The Power Is in Their Hands

Project Teaches 6th-Graders They Can Help the Planet

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Most middle school students who fiddled with the school's electrical wires and turned off the hall and bathroom lights would probably wind up in the principal's office. Read story and 7 comments »

Up Next on N.Va. Transit: Planning for Everything

Officials Propose Array of Projects

Thursday, May 7, 2009

With construction to expand Metro to Dulles International Airport finally underway, the region's political leaders have turned their attention to the next frontiers of Washington area transit: new bus lines everywhere, trolleys in Alexandria and Arlington County, and rail lines to Centreville, Mount Vernon and Prince William County. Read story »

Letter to the Editor: School Planners Ignore Downside of Well Drilling

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Calvin Eugene Singhas's 55 years of well drilling experience ("Well Driller Has Made His Mark All Over Loudoun," Loudoun Extra, April 19) should serve as a cautionary tale to our county planners and leaders. Unfortunately, Loudoun's school planning staff and School Board simply aren't paying attention. Read story »

A Chicken Heating Every Pot?

Manure-to-Energy Project Gains Attention Of Va. Candidate in 'Green' Election Year

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Do not try to tell Oren Heatwole that chicken poop smells. Read story »

Washington Area Residents Take Green Living to the Extreme, Perturbing Families

Monday, April 20, 2009

Near Leesburg, a woman parks her hybrid car and erases its computer memory. She doesn't want her husband to find out she's getting just 30-something miles per gallon. Read story and 11 comments »

County Officials Are Trying To Shed Light on Solar Panels

Unused 13,000-Square-Foot Project Is Obsolete

Sunday, April 19, 2009

As the Franklin Park Arts Center prepares to celebrate Earth Day this week, Loudoun County officials say they are trying to figure out what to do with a 13,000-square-foot array of solar panels that has sat unused in the middle of the center's lawn for the better part of 10 years. Read story and 11 comments »

PHOTO GALLERY: Planting Perennials for Earth Day

Saturday, April 18, 2009

A group of kindergarten students gathered at AOL's child care center on Friday to help celebrate the building's recently awarded LEED status. In honor of the award and Earth Day, the children planted perennials and ground-cover at the center Read story »

At Loudoun Farm, Kaine Touts Bay Progress

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Virginia's taxpayers paid more than $40,000 to make sure Mark Thompson's cows don't wade in the streams on his Loudoun County farm anymore. Read story and 1 comment »

A Trashed Economy Foretold

Landfill Levels Have Been Sinking

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Along with the stock market and the foreclosure rate, a less-heralded barometer has signaled the arrival of hard times: the landfill. Read story and 1 comment »

'Green' Energy Plant Proposed for Loudoun

Wastewater Would Be Used for Steam

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Loudoun County would be powered by electricity generated in its back yard under a proposal to build an $813 million plant using natural gas, steam and solar energy. Read story and 11 comments »

From Deep Fryer to Fuel Tank

Leesburg Trolley Runs on Discarded Vegetable Oil

Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009

When gas prices soared last summer, John Larson didn't fret. And he didn't buy a hybrid car. Instead, the Leesburg resident whipped around town in his Volkswagen Beetle that was powered by a diesel engine he equipped to run on vegetable oil. Read story »

Environmental Protections Take Hit in Fiscal Crunch

Monday, Jan. 26, 2009

The state of Virginia has eliminated more than one-fifth of its air-pollution inspectors — who police everything from massive power plants to neighborhood dry cleaners — as part of its attempt to make up a budget shortfall estimated at $3 billion or more, officials said. Read story »

Legislators Consider Ban on Plastic Shopping Bags

Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009

Virginia might once and for all put an end to that nagging question: Paper or plastic? Read story and 6 comments »

Up Close: Lucas Brown

Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009

In 2007, Leesburg-grown Lucas Brown, a senior at Oberlin College in Ohio, co-founded a sustainability-themed home with two fellow Oberlin students called the SEED (Student Experiment in Ecological Design) house. Read story »

Localities Make a Pitch for Energy-Efficient Projects

Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008

As President-elect Barack Obama drafts an economic stimulus package that could provide up to $1 trillion, elected officials from the Washington region combined forces yesterday to pursue support for environmentally friendly public works projects. Read story and 1 comment »

Summit Focuses on Role of Local Governments in Energy Policy

Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008

About 100 people attended Sustainable Loudoun’s third annual Energy Summit Friday evening in Ashburn. Read story and 2 comments »

Loudoun News Briefs

Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008

News briefs in Loudoun County. Read story »

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