Whitney Pipkin
Staff Writer at The Bay Journal
Journalist covering environmental issues for @chesbayjournal. Freelanced about food for a decade. Doing a new thing @whitneykpipkin.
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6 days ago |
bayjournal.com | Whitney Pipkin
Data centers are not just a Northern Virginia problem. The vast and growing presence of these warehouse-like buildings housing the world’s computing power has implications for quality of life, land, energy and water across the Chesapeake Bay region. This was the main message of a half-day workshop on May 19 hosted by the Choose Clean Water Coalition at the start of its annual conference held this year in Harrisonburg, VA.
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2 weeks ago |
bayjournal.com | Whitney Pipkin
Industry advocates for chemical companies have requested a two-year exemption from certain air pollution laws in response to an offer from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA earlier this year notified companies that would be subject to a new suite of air pollution control measures that they could individually apply for a two-year exemption from complying to the new rules. The exemption, in many cases, would push the compliance deadline to 2028 or 2029.
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1 month ago |
bayjournal.com | Whitney Pipkin
It’s important to remember at least two things when taking off in a pair of canoes with three kids aboard: One, if a lake was created by damming up a river, it still has a current. Two, paddling with the current on the way out will be lovely, but paddling against water and wind on the way back will be less so. This was our introduction to the stunning waters of Raystown Lake, the largest human-made lake located entirely in Pennsylvania.
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1 month ago |
bayjournal.com | Whitney Pipkin
It was the fireflies — or sudden absence of them — that got the attention of a pair of 9-year-olds in Leesburg, VA, in 2019. Aila McGregor had already made a sign for the window of her family’s townhouse in Loudoun County (“Wanted: fireflies to come back”) when a neighbor knocked on her door.
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1 month ago |
bayjournal.com | Whitney Pipkin
A researcher has found contaminants associated with coal ash present in another Virginia waterway, this time the James River, near a site where the waste product has long been stored in the ground. Tyler Frankel, an assistant professor of environmental science at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, began testing waters near coal ash storage sites a few years ago to help fill gaps in the data, he said.
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Legislators planning to introduce #datacenter legislation are holding Town Halls this week: - Sen. Roem & Del. Thomas will hold one Wednesday (12/18) at 5 PM at Battlefield High School - Del. Lovejoy will hold one Thursday (12/19) at 7 PM at Patriot High School
Data center growth will cost Virginia ratepayers, report finds. https://t.co/GaGFkHiyzO
Data center growth will cost Virginia ratepayers, report finds. https://t.co/GaGFkHiyzO
Think AI (and the data centers that do the computations) have no impact in the real world? Think again. Excellent reporting and illustrations. @washingtonpost https://t.co/fMgbU2apaL
