My home Commonwealth of Virginia understands this well. Across Virginia's 15 million acres of forested land, forest-related businesses contribute $17 billion annually to the state's economy and support more than 100,000 jobs.
Spanberger highlights the economic impact of forests in Virginia.
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This fall, voters can cast their ballots for Virginia to no longer strip so many of our neighbors of their fundamental rights — a shameful relic of our Jim Crow past.
I believe we will win, but there’s been new challenges created for the candidates who have been working hard, who now have a primary coming up in August later than our typical June.
But our energy future should not — must not — just be written in Richmond.
I do not want to see us move in a place where we think, as a commonwealth, we’re on path towards meeting the VCEA goals but that’s because there’s all this generation that is sort of outside of the scope of what is counted.
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