The Virginia Permit Transparency website is part of a broader effort to modernize Virginia's permitting process by making it more accessible and efficient for residents and businesses. The VPT website provides the public with a centralized platform to track the daily status and timeline of critical steps for
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The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality will host a series of three community meetings statewide, including one in Henrico, to get feedback on ideas that would help the commonwealth reach its climate pollution reduction goals. The first meeting is scheduled for Jan. 22 at 6 p.m. at the DEQ
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About 80 people who crowded into the Varina Area Library Wednesday for a meeting with local, state and federal officials had some of their environmental concerns eased but left with other questions unanswered. The good news: a Varina sterilization plant identified last year by the United States Environmental Protection Agency
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Henrico and state officials first learned in late October that significantly elevated levels of potentially dangerous chemicals known as PFAS were present in the White Oak Swamp and Chickahominy River basin near Richmond International Airport in Eastern Henrico – but some federal officials knew at least six months earlier, the Citizen
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