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Important challenges in the Piedmont. Get involved and make a difference right now.
Find out about current advocacy alerts. Get involved and make a difference right now.
Use our Buy Fresh Buy Local website to connect with grocers, caterers, restaurants, CSAs, and farmer's markets.
Our interactive website highlights 10 easy, do-it-yourself projects that you can get started on today. There are also how-to videos to help get you started.
TrAIL & PATH are high-voltage transmission lines that would connect to the oldest and dirtiest coal-fired generation in the United States.
Take part in one of the upcoming events in the region.
Learn about the uranium mining process, the harmful consequences associated with uranium mining, and what you can do to prevent the moratorium from being lifted in Virginia.
The Buy Fresh, Buy Local campaign has been launched and expanded into the Northern Piedmont for the 2008 season. Last year's inaugural program in the Albemarle/Charlottesville area was a great success and helped link consumers with locally produced foods
PEC's Natural History Day Camp partners include garden clubs, soil & water conservation districts, and county parks and recreation departments. Journey Through Hallowed Ground & Bull Run Mountains Conservancy Summer camps are also linked.
Utilities have proposed a number of unnecessary or questionable transmission lines that would cross through the Piedmont. Read more about PEC's involvement and position on the TrAIL, PATH, and the Loudoun-Middleburg project below.
Learn about the uranium mining process, the harmful consequences associated with uranium mining, and what you can do to prevent the moratorium from being lifted.
