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  • 2025 Virginia General Assembly Legislative Priorities

    2025 Virginia General Assembly Legislative Priorities

    2025 Virginia General Assembly Legislative Priorities (Updated as of 1/26/25 @ 7:46am) This year’s Virginia General Assembly, when legislators get together to make a new set of laws, takes place…

  • Take Action on Prince George’s Data Center Bill Before November 19th!

    UPDATE AS OF NOVEMBER 19TH: On Tuesday November 19, the Prince George’s County Council unanimously voted to HOLD on CB 52 until next year thanks to your outpouring of letters, and…


  • Data Center Frontiers Summit Recap

    Screenshot from the Data Center Frontier Trends Summit 2024 Website – note the sold out sign. Source: https://www.dcftrends.com/2024/home In early September 2024, Nature Forward Conservation Director Lydia Lawrence and I…


  • Introduction to Maryland Conservation Advocate

    Hello, Nature Forward!  My name is Angie McCarthy (she/her), and I’m proud to be Nature Forward’s new Maryland Conservation Advocate. Before your heart starts pounding, Denisse Guitarra is still an important…


  • Speak up for a stronger Data Center Zoning Ordinance

    UPDATED 8/5/24 Join us on September 10 @ 4:30pm: testify for stronger protections! The Data Center ZOA public hearing was held on July 16 and the Board deferred their decision…


  • June Conservation Café: Data Center impacts on National Parks with NPCA

    On June 4th, Kyle Hart, Mid-Atlantic Program Manager for the National Parks Conservation Association, spoke about the impact of data centers on our DMV region’s national parks.  Failing to reform…


  • Montgomery County FY25 Operating Budget

    On April 9th, 2024, Nature Forward submitted comments and testified on the FY25 Montgomery County Operating Budget. We advocated for continued support and increased in areas such as climate change,…


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