17 students charged with trespassing during environmental sit-in

Photo by Daniel Arango.

While protesting the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s recent approvals of wastewater permits to Dominion Virginia Power, 17 students were charged with trespassing on state property. On March 7 around 10 a.m. student activists from the Virginia Student Environmental Coalition staged a sit-in at the VDEQ headquarters in Richmond. Members of the Coalition came from […]