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We're Hiring! Media and Public Relations Specialist Apply at www.pecva.org/apply

We’re Hiring: Media and Public Relations Specialist

PEC is seeking an experienced Media and Public Relations Specialist to join our Outreach and Communications Team in our headquarters office in Warrenton, VA …
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The Fight to Stop Dominion's Attack on Small-Scale Solar - Webinar Recording

The Fight to Stop Dominion’s Attack on Small-Scale Solar – Webinar Recording

On October 21, Solar United Neighbors hosted a webinar on Dominion Energy’s proposal to severely limit net metering. PEC’s Senior Energy & Climate Policy Advisor, Ashish Kapoor, shared findings from our new Value of Solar …
Costumed bike rider(s) in the 2025 Halloween Bike Ride.

Halloween Costume Bike Promotes Safety on the Roads

Around 30 riders decorated their bikes, dressed up as extra-terrestrials, supernatural beings, cartoons and food items, and enjoyed a November evening of biking around Charlottesville …
Fauquier Fall Updates 2025

Fauquier Fall Updates 2025

We’ll touch on VDOT’s proposed I-66 bridge expansion at historic and iconic Thoroughfare Gap, the transition point into the rural Piedmont, at the beloved Chapman-Beverley Mill. Then, very impactful to all of us, we’ll talk about …
A drop of water sits on top of a green leaf.

Community invited to judge PEC annual photo contest finalists through Nov. 16

MEDIA CONTACT: Hugh Kenny, Multimedia Communications Specialist, [email protected]; 540-347-2334, x7024 WARRENTON, VA. (Nov 1, 2025) – Finalists in The Piedmont Environmental Council’s 15th Annual Photo Contest have been selected and community members are now invited …
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We're Hiring a Director of Finance! www.pecva.org/apply

We’re Hiring: Director of Finance

Join one of the most effective community-based environmental groups in the country. Title: Director of FinanceSupervisor: PEC PresidentOffice Location: Warrenton, VAJob Classification: Full-time, Exempt About PEC The Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) conserves and restores the …
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A substation being built next to the WO&D Trail. Photo by Hugh Kenny

Op-Ed: Protect Virginians from paying billions for data center infrastructure

Billions of dollars of new power generation and transmission infrastructure is needed to meet data center demand. As of now, all of Virginia’s ratepayers are on the hook to pay for this through their electric …
13 people stand behind and cut a red ribbon at the site of a small crop-based agrivoltaics project to commemorate and celebrate its launch

Press Release: Energy independence and dual land use are central pillars of PEC’s new crop-based agrivoltaics demonstration project

On an appropriately sunny Friday afternoon, Oct. 17, more than 70 community members came together at The Piedmont Environmental Council’s Community Farm at Roundabout Meadows to officially “cut the ribbon” on Virginia’s first crop-based agrivoltaics …
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We're Hiring! In House Counsel www.pecva.org/apply

We’re Hiring: In House Counsel

Join one of the most effective community-based environmental groups in the country. Title: In-House CounselSupervisor: PEC PresidentOffice Location: Warrenton, VAJob Classification: Full-time Exempt About PEC The Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) conserves and restores the lands …
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