The VLW Blog

Talk about wearing your heart on your sleeve.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Pamela Meade Sargent made it perfectly clear where her sentiments lie in her report and recommendation issued yesterday in the Ison Rock Ridge logging case:
“To a child of Appalachia, to see the mountains laid waste, whether by clear-cutting or strip mining, is to witness a […]

[Read more →]

Environmental groups launched a two-pronged legal attack last week on a planned $8-billion coal-burning power plant in Wise County.
The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of four other groups, sued in both Richmond Circuit Court and the Supreme Court of Virginia.  Two actions filed in the circuit court are administrative appeals of decisions by the […]

[Read more →]

An environmental activist group has filed a federal lawsuit, seeking to stop construction of Interstate 73, a proposed highway from the Roanoke Valley to the North Carolina state line. But the Roanoke Times reports that a group called Virginians for Appropriate Roads filed suit in Richmond, hoping to halt funding for the $4 billion project.

[Read more →]