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The Virginia Clean Economy Act (HB 1526 and SB 851) was signed into law by Governor Ralph Northam in 2020. The bill establishes a renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS), which mandates that the two utilities in the state, Dominion Energy Virginia and Appalachian Electric Power, produce 100 percent renewable electricity by 2045 and 2050, respectively. [1]
Following West Virginia's statehood in June 1863, the Restored Government of Virginia relinquished authority over the northwestern counties now forming the new 35th state, and thus lost most of its area not under Confederate military control. Pierpont then moved the Restored Government from Wheeling to Alexandria, effective August 26, 1863.
The Radical Congressional Reconstruction legislation required the suffrage for black men. [2] During Reconstruction, U.S. General John Schofield administered Virginia as Military District One. By the time he called a new state constitutional convention for 1868, three distinct parties had coalesced in Virginia.
Bader joined the United States Foreign Service in 1965, and was posted to the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs in Washington, D.C. In 1966, Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-AR) invited Bader to join the staff of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations where he was a senior staff member overseeing international security and arms control from 1966 to 1969.
The sprawling bill carves out $100 million for the Seaport Economic Council, $99 million for advanced manufacturing, $400 million for MassWorks public infrastructure projects, $100 million for the ...
The bill would allow Fairfax County to hold a referendum on placing a casino, as well as a convention center and concert hall, in Tysons Corner, in the heart of some of the nation's wealthiest ...
$65 billion for broadband development. [53] The bill also made the Minority Business Development Agency a permanent agency. [54] On August 10, The Senate voted 69–31 to advance the bill. [55] [56] On November 5, the House of Representatives passed it, 228–206. [57] Biden signed the legislation into law on November 15. [58]
South Side Railroad Depot on Rock Street in Petersburg; it served as the office of William Mahone when his Readjuster Party dominated Virginia politics.. Immediately after Virginia's adoption of a new state constitution and readmission into the United States in 1870, the first state legislature (a majority of whose members had never held political office before), after extensive lobbying ...