We greatly appreciate Larry Land‘s contribution to our Virginia Environmental Law blog as our guest author today. He is director of policy development for the Virginia Association of Counties. He has lobbied on environmental issues for more than 20 years.

I just got back from the 22nd Annual Environment Virginia Symposium, and, boy, is my frontal lobe tired. Hosted by the VMI Center for Leadership and Ethics, the theme of this year’s symposium was “Sustainable Solutions for Uncertain Times: Partnering for Economic and Environmental Success.”

Last December, EPA and the Commonwealth of Virginia reached agreement on the state’s proposed Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP). In evaluating the WIP, EPA found that the WIP met nutrient and sediment allocations for each basin in the final TMDL. EPA also accepted that Virginia was committed to implementing aggressive WWTP upgrades, a more accountable urban [...]

On  Monday, the Commonwealth of Virginia submitted a revised Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) to the EPA, meeting EPA’s established deadline. However, in the revised draft, Secretary of Natural Resources Doug Domenech,

On Monday, August 23, 2010, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality released Virginia’s 2010 Water Quality Assessment Report, and its findings appear to be just as murky as the James River. As with many things in life, there’s the good news, and the bad news. The good news is that more than 430 waters have [...]

Forty years ago today, Earth Day was born. Its conception marked the beginning of the modern environmental movement in the United States, and according to its founder, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, was the day “the environmental issue came of age in American political life.” What many might not know, however, is that the environmental movement [...]