…Market Street to be demolished. That is a shopping center where the Artful Lodger currently exists as well as the Livery Stable. The BAR did this once before on November…
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Cville Land Use: Week Ahead for August 4, 2025
…hired the Virginia Center of Housing and Research at Virginia Tech to update the area’s housing needs assessment. The Board of Commissioners will get an update at their meeting at…
Rivanna Festivities & Take Action
…planning within the context of the region’s data center development and a growing need for drought resilience. PEC Director of Land Use, Julie Bolthouse, will speak about our data center…
Golden to Mars Project Timeline
…is part of a three-segment loop proposed by Dominion to move more power to data centers. Click to expand image. The Golden to Mars transmission line is the last segment of…
Culpeper Quarterly Update – Culpeper puts guardrails on data centers
…this issue, but we support the recent move to create a data center overlay, which will effectively prohibit new data centers in the Town. However, it will not impact data centers…
Letter to the General Assembly: Data Centers Need to Pay Their Fair Share of Taxes
…Environmental Council supports efforts to eliminate or substantially limit the sales tax credit on data center equipment as a means of increasing revenues available for need programs in Virginia. We…
Expanded Transmission Line Planned for Southwest Mountains
…layers of natural, cultural and historical significance. As data center-fueled infrastructure threatens this area’s unique communities and landscapes, we invite you to a community meeting Wednesday, May 13 to learn…
A Day of Celebrating Conservation: PEC’s 2026 Annual Gathering
…The Energy Infrastructure Impacts of Virginia’s Data Center Boom Takeaways: Virginia has become the world’s largest data center hub, consuming over a quarter of the state’s electricity with demand projected to…
Aug. 6: free cookout, community dinner and workshop on funding sources and technical help for land conservation and land management practices
Conservation funding sources workshop at Glenmore Farm in 2022. Credit: Hugh Kenny. Contact: Montana Lanier-Ruffner Piedmont Environmental Councilmlanier@pecva.org; 540-347-2334, x7009 Marshall, Va. (July 29, 2024) – On Tuesday, Aug. 6,…
PEC Accepting Annual Photo Contest Submissions Through Sept. 30
Contact: Hugh Kenny, Multimedia Communications Specialist The Piedmont Environmental Council hkenny@pecva.org; 540-347-2334, x7024 Virginia Piedmont, Va. (Sept. 6, 2024) – Now through Sept. 30, professional and amateur photographers alike are…