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1 month ago | 
grist.org | Matt Busse
This story from Cardinal News and Canary Media is part of a Rural News Network series that explores how industry, state governments, and education systems are training the growing clean-energy workforce in rural America. When Mason Taylor was getting ready to graduate from high school in 2022, he thought he would have to take an entry-level technician job with a company in Tennessee.
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1 month ago | 
ecotopical.com | Matt Busse
Welcome to EcoTopical Your daily eco-friendly green news aggregator. Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.
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1 month ago | 
cardinalnews.org | Matt Busse
Appalachian Power is asking Virginia regulators for permission to charge customers to recover money it has spent on renewable energy projects and on complying with environmental laws. The average residential customer’s monthly bill would go up by $6.63, or about 3.8%, if the State Corporation Commission approves Appalachian’s requests, according to documents recently filed with the SCC. The increase would not occur before March 1, 2026.
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1 month ago | 
canarymedia.com | Matt Busse |Lisa Rowan
Powering Rural Futures: Clean energy is creating new jobs in rural America, generating opportunities for people who install solar panels, build wind turbines, weatherize homes, and more. This five-part series from the Rural News Network explores how industry, state governments, and education systems are training this growing workforce.
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1 month ago | 
ruralnewsnetwork.org | Lisa Rowan |Matt Busse
When Mason Taylor was getting ready to graduate from high school in 2022, he thought he would have to take an entry-level technician job with a company in Tennessee. Taylor grew up in the town of Dryden in rural Lee County, in the westernmost sliver of Virginia between Kentucky and Tennessee. He had come to love the electrical courses he took in high school because there was always something new to learn, always a new way to challenge himself.
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1 month ago | 
cardinalnews.org | Lisa Rowan |Matt Busse
When Mason Taylor was getting ready to graduate from high school in 2022, he thought he would have to take an entry-level technician job with a company in Tennessee. Taylor grew up in the town of Dryden in rural Lee County, in the westernmost sliver of Virginia between Kentucky and Tennessee. He had come to love the electrical courses he took in high school because there was always something new to learn, always a new way to challenge himself.
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1 month ago | 
cardinalnews.org | Matt Busse
State regulators have approved an increase for Columbia Gas of Virginia’s non-gas rates and charges that would add about $6 to the average residential customer’s monthly bill. The average customer using 5.1 dekatherms of gas monthly will see their bill increase from $76.26 to $82.47, up 8%, according to terms filed with regulators in December and approved on Thursday. Non-gas base rates and charges cover operations, maintenance and capital expenses.
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1 month ago | 
cardinalnews.org | Matt Busse
A Virginia Tech-led agricultural program backed by the largest grant in the university’s history is continuing its work, with officials confident that it complies with new Trump administration requirements. The Alliance to Advance Climate-Smart Agriculture directly pays farmers in four states, including Virginia, for environmentally friendly practices such as no-till farming, conservation crop rotation and precision nutrient management.
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1 month ago | 
cardinalnews.org | Matt Busse
Here are two jobs announcements that happened Tuesday. A plastics recycling startup will invest $4.3 million and create 28 jobs in Pittsylvania County, the governor’s office announced Tuesday. Green Recycle USA LLC will turn industrial plastic waste into raw material to be used in new products by manufacturers in a variety of industries, Gov. Glenn Youngkin said in a news release. The company aims to recycle 2,000 tons annually.
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1 month ago | 
cardinalnews.org | Matt Busse
The natural gas pipeline developer The Williams Companies plans another pipeline expansion in Virginia, this time to run from Pittsylvania County to parts north. The Transco Power Express would supply markets north of the Transco compressor station in Chatham with up to 950 million cubic feet of gas daily, serving “the power-hungry Virginia market,” Williams’ President and CEO Alan Armstrong said last week on a quarterly earnings call.
