Congressional Republicans, led by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), have been blocking extension of several key clean energy tax cre...

Despite a Congress that's more interested in pandering to the austerity crowd than actually solving America's problems, Virginia is...

A Blue Virginia reader passed along this Facebook update from Randy Marcus , Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling's chief of staff: Every time I see ...

The World Wildlife Fund accuses a Virginia company of destroying the rainforest habitat of tigers, elephants and other wildlife in Indonesi...

Eric Fischer created this map of Washington, DC using Twitter data from August 2011: Routing 30,000 randomly-chosen trips through the path...

An update from KeepTheBan.org : Thanks to you and your hard work, the uranium industry did not have the votes in the General Assembly to in...

As the Virginia General Assembly considers a mining company's request to lift the state's longtime moratorium on digging up radioact...

The Coalition for Smarter Growth warns Gov. Bob McDonnell's transportation plans will only add more cars from sprawling new developments...

Huge traffic changes are coming to Alexandria thanks to the Defense Department's Base Realignment & Closure Commission (BRAC),  but...

Studies have shown that while people like to complain about traffic, most long-haul commuters don't do anything to change their drives. ...

For someone so anxious to drill for oil just miles from Virginia Beach, Bob McDonnell is awfully terrified to say the word "drill....

It's not something you'd expect to hear from a government run by people who claim to be fiscal conservatives: Virginia is threatenin...

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell ran claiming to be a sensible moderate. But his governance record is clear -- from trying to privatize Virginia ...

Dead zones spawned by runoff from farm fields, urban sprawl & inadequate water treatment plants? Crab populations constantly on the brin...

UPDATE : The Washington Post is picking up the story, now asking if McDonnell lifted the ban on bottled water at the behest of the industry ...

So I think I finally have this Gov. Bob McDonnell guy all figured out.  When he talks about a "surplus," he really means Virginia...

It's not often you read an editorial that so perfectly encapsulates the complete fraud that is offshore drilling advocacy. Time for a qu...

UPDATE : Accuweather forecasters are now warning of a possible oil spill on Gulf Coast beaches . As Not Larry Sabato points out, this is wh...

How else to read this new poll (PDF) from Christopher Newport University? First, let's establish one thing: Virginia's government ...

So much for campaign promises : When Bob McDonnell wanted to tout his commitment to land conservation last year, the Republican gubernatoria...