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          <title>Researchers ask: Are caged chickens miserable?</title>
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Are cramped chickens crazy chickens? Researchers are trying to answer that question through several studies that intend to take emotions out of an angry debate between animal welfare groups and producers.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Public hearing on mountaintop mining waste draws large crowd</title>
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BIG STONE GAP, Va. &#8211; A raucous crowd arrived Thursday for a public hearing on the future of permits allowing surface mine waste to be dumped into streams.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Biologists, company work together to save wetlands, mole salamander</title>
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In September 2007, biologists joined forces with the Boxley Materials Company to build a new wetland outside the range of quarry expansion to give salamanders a place to reproduce.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Virginia panel adopts storm&#45;water runoff rules</title>
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A state panel adopted rules this afternoon designed to reduce the amount of pollution that rains wash from new office parks and other developed areas.
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          <title>Virginia reports improved air quality; summer best on record</title>
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The number of poor air-quality days in Virginia dropped from 76 in 1999 to three in 2009, according to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Smoking ban in effect at U.Va. Medical Center</title>
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As of yesterday, patients, employees and visitors no longer are allowed to smoke on the property of the University of Virginia Medical Center.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Study: Popular weed killer can harm amphibians</title>
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The weed killer atrazine, widely used on Florida lawns and golf courses, interferes with the normal growth and development of amphibians and freshwater fish, says an analysis by researchers at the University of South Florida.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Next few months critical to Chesapeake Bay&#8217;s future</title>
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The Chesapeake Bay is too beautiful for its own good.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Virginia panel balks at new oyster rules</title>
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 A committee will look at the Potomac River&#8217;s dwindling oyster population.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Virginia losing farmland at steady pace</title>
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Virginia lost more than one-half million acres of farmland between 2002 and 2007.           ]]></description>
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          <title>UPDATE: Obama officials seek new steps to restore Chesapeake Bay</title>
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The Obama administration proposed new requirements and incentives yesterday for cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay.ation released draft plans today for restoring the Chesapeake Bay.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Coastal seafloors off Virginia, elsewhere will be charted under $40 million plan</title>
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The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration is planning a $40 million effort to survey and chart coastal seafloors. 
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          <title>Amherst officials to discuss sludge letter</title>
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The Amherst County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to discuss a letter today opposing the dumping, spreading or discharge of biosolids on land adjacent to the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway Trail.           ]]></description>
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          <title>UPDATE: Wet spring kills harmful gypsy moths in Virginia</title>
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The cool, wet spring wasn&#8217;t just good for replenishing water reserves &#8212; it also has killed off vast swaths of gypsy moths that infested mountain forests throughout the state.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Are Virginia&#8217;s national forests a good spot for wind power?</title>
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Virginia&#8217;s national forests are emerging as a potential battleground for wind energy, a key part of efforts to develop alternatives to coal and oil in the United States.
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          <title>James River Runoff Rundown raises $26,000 for conservation</title>
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More than 110 people statewide participated in the day, including 11 members of the Greater Lynchburg Environmental Network.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Dead fish showing up again in western Va. rivers</title>
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Fish are dying once again in western Virginia.            ]]></description>
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          <title>American shad aren&#8217;t coming back in Va.</title>
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Something bright flashed near the surface of the murky James River. Will McCahill swung at it with a net and caught a piece of living history.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Week of rainfall swells James River, eases drought concern</title>
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Mother Nature decided this wasn&#8217;t a good weekend for the James River Float Company to take customers out on the water.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 22:46:52 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Blackwater Creek watershed study finds surprising resiliency</title>
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Despite ongoing water quality degradation, life in Lynchburg&#8217;s streams appears more resilient than scientists expected, according to new data just released in an ongoing study on the Blackwater Creek watershed.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Raising animals naturally</title>
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CHINA GROVE - Lee Menius grew up on a farm where animals were raised the conventional way for many years. Now he&#8217;s trying something different.           ]]></description>
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          <title>10 tips for kids to be more environmentally friendly</title>
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Making your life more environmentally friendly doesn&#8217;t always include planting trees or starting compost piles. Caring about the environment means taking responsibility.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:24:25 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Want to audit a college class? Here&#8217;s how.</title>
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Here&#8217;s a sampling of courses related to sustainability at each local private college. For a more comprehensive listing of courses, visit each school&#8217;s Web site, as listed below.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Central Virginia a great place for green learning</title>
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With several colleges in and around Lynchburg, Central Virginia is well stocked with academic coursework anyone can access that focuses on the environment.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:23:18 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Old becomes new with Lynchburg woman&#8217;s skill</title>
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What do you do with leftover ribbon from your sister&#8217;s wedding? Or an old shirt that no longer fits? Or that too-cute sundress with a hole in the middle?           ]]></description>
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          <title>Composting 101: Pile it on</title>
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A popular way to increase a household&#8217;s eco-friendliness is to start composting.            ]]></description>
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          <title>8 ways to green up your pets</title>
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Keeping pets involves a lot of responsibility, between feeding them, making sure they don&#8217;t leave messes everywhere and ensuring they are cared for properly. But there&#8217;s a lot pet owners can do to help the environment by slightly changing some every day practices.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Area schools set green theme for 2009</title>
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A figure clad in a lime green safety vest holding an orange trash bag leaned over and picked up something lying on the ground beside Leesville Road: A bent diamond-shaped traffic sign that said, &#8220;No littering.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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          <title>In Abingdon, electric car sets an example at 25 mph</title>
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If you&#8217;re in Abingdon behind a teeny little car crawling at 25 miles per hour, don&#8217;t honk the horn &#8211; it&#8217;s going as fast as it can.           ]]></description>
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          <title>A guide to going green</title>
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Going green doesn&#8217;t mean completely uprooting your life. You don&#8217;t have to live in a house made from tires or give up showers, or blow your savings account on every product with spectacular claims of environmental friendliness.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Retired couple reduce carbon footprint with environmentally sound home</title>
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A 55-acre site on a gravel road in Forest held a lot of promise 10 years ago for the eco-friendly lifestyle that Bob and Makanah Morriss wanted to live when they retired.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Lynchburg plans city eco&#45;park</title>
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A boarded-up brick warehouse on Rutherford Street is a faint shadow of its industrial past &#8212; the roof sags, vines slink through broken windows and the air smells faintly of chemicals.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Lynchburg&#45;area clergy using faith to go green</title>
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A growing group of Lynchburg-area clergy is using faith to improve the environment by invoking God as the reason people should go green.           ]]></description>
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          <title>The bay garners another low mark</title>
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The Chesapeake Bay is gravely ill, and it&#8217;s not getting better.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Energy upgrades may save Lynchburg College millions</title>
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The college has contracted with the Charlotte branch of Ameresco, an energy solutions company, to audit the energy efficiency of buildings and systems across campus.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Zinc levels in Appomattox wastewater treatment plant exceed limit</title>
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Another town of Appomattox wastewater treatment plant has a metal problem, this time with high amounts of zinc in water discharged from the Water Reclamation Facility.           ]]></description>
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