The latest appointments to the state’s Council on Environmental justice include Hope Cupit, a former Air Pollution Control Board member who has consistently raised awareness on the topic, and Eureka Tyree, vice chair of the Cumberland County Board of Supervisors. Two seats on the air board, one of which was Cupit’s, have also been filled […]

An outgoing member of the State Air Pollution Control Board — whose repeated attempts to raise awareness about environmental justice concerns helped halt the construction of a Mountain Valley Pipeline compressor station in Pittsylvania County — called for her successor, who will be appointed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, to maintain a keen focus on how […]

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