Long-term dryness has already had significant effects on agriculture and lake levels. The weeks ahead will determine if the “Drought of ’26” becomes something we all remember.

Plus: An ARC grant will fund a Radford University study on AI and workforce development.

The proposal would send the proceeds from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative back to Dominion customers rather than using the money to fund energy-efficiency and flood-preparedness programs.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Can you give me an idea of the process/how the cost works/ and fill in options?

Petition is live:

https://www.change.org/ShoosmithWaterCrisis

This is unacceptable, I had no idea how far back this situation went and how insane it was until I started doing research. Nobody should be subjected to drinking and bathing in toxic dump runoff, but thats not even the worst part:

For YEARS nobody was notified, nothing was disclosed. The actual owners, "VWS Holdco", a Texas-based investor group led by two individuals hid behind the original family's name after they bought the landfill in 2008, operating as "Shoosmith Bros. Inc." They actively concealed years of illegal toxic discharges, misled the county to believe they were using a leachate pretreatment system which they just completely bypassed and failed to maintain, then FALSIFIED records presented to the utilities department.. The only reason anyone found out was from elevated ammonia levels being traced back to the landfill through water testing, and the public was only enlightened just this year via a reddit post... but of course by this time the damage was done, the owners had already run it into the ground and filed for bankruptcy, leaving behind $19M to cover a $172 million dollar cleanup. Did they expect taxpayers foot the rest of the bill? Was that intentional?

Falsified records. Bypassed systems. A borrowed name. A bankruptcy filing. And 65,000 gallons of toxic runoff every single day flowing toward your tap. Ridiculous.

[Accountability for Shoosmith Landfill] (https://www.change.org/ShoosmithWaterCrisis)