Virginia’s Piedmont is a unique place for residents and visitors alike, with its exceptional natural resources, productive farms and forests, and a landscape steeped in history.
Creating Historic Districts
For more than 40 years, PEC has worked to create historic districts across its nine-county service area in an effort …
Celebrating Mountain Heritage
The Piedmont Environmental Council honors the history and heritage of the many hundreds of families that once called the Blue …
Old Mills Trail Extension: Long-Time Greenway Vision Coming into View
Albemarle is beginning the first phase of a planned project to extend the Old Mills Trail four miles downstream. There it will eventually connect to a future park at Milton Landing and an existing greenway …
FirstEnergy to Update Rappahannock Board on Page-Sperryville Line Upgrade Project
FirstEnergy and Rappahannock Electric Coop will provide an update on the Page-Sperryville transmission line rebuild project at the Board of Supervisors’ meeting on July 6 …
A Day of Celebrating Conservation: PEC’s 2026 Annual Gathering
We couldn’t have asked for a better day to hold PEC’s Annual Gathering on Saturday, May 30 to celebrate conservation and community. A beautiful property, exciting program line-up, sun and blue skies beckoned nearly 200 …
Page-Sperryville Transmission Line Upgrade: What You Should Know
Regional utility provider FirstEnergy is proposing to rebuild the roughly 14-mile-long, 138-kilovolt (kV) transmission line stretching from Luray in Page County to Sperryville in Rappahannock County. Known as the Page-Sperryville Transmission Line Project, it has …
Shenandoah Borderlands project protects 5,000 acres for clean water, habitat, scenic viewshed
Shenandoah National Park is one of Virginia’s most beloved and visited outdoor spaces, attracting 1.7 million visitors in 2025. It’s also a global conservation priority for biodiversity protection and climate resiliency. For these reasons, The …
Hilton Farm: A Key Piece of the Conservation Puzzle in the Rappahannock-Rapidan Watershed
You know that feeling when you’re putting together a puzzle and there’s that “Aha!” moment, when filling in one missing piece brings everything together? Hilton Farm in Orange County is an example of this phenomenon …
PEC statement on Prince William Digital Gateway latest legal win
The recent ruling by the Virginia Court of Appeals against the Prince William Digital Gateway, in favor of the citizen-backed lawsuits attempting to block it, is another example of the growing grassroots power of Virginians …
Take Action: Show Your Support for Virginia’s Great Outdoors Act
The House Finance Committee takes up the bill on Wednesday. Please take a moment to send in a letter! Dear Supporter, Last week, we reached out to you about the urgent need for data center reform …
Virginia General Assembly in Full Swing
Our advocacy team is already hard at work as the 2026 Virginia General Assembly gets underway in Richmond …
Broad Run Bridge Expansion Proposal Threatens Chapman-Beverley Mill
A proposal from the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) would replace and significantly widen the I-66 bridge at Broad Run, leading to potentially disastrous implications for historic Chapman-Beverley Mill, as well as the Broad Run-Little …
