Author: By Alan Wooten | The Center Square

I read every noise rule in Virginia that could reach a data center. There are 73 of them across 43 jurisdictions, and the one that stopped me was not a decibel limit. It was a budget line. It is in a Loudoun County staff report from September 2016. The county

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Three years in a row of losing in the legislature might persuade some people to give up trying to get what they want. For members of the group Quiet Clean Virginia, their losing record simply challenged them to seek another path to victory.  Quiet Clean Virginia and its affiliate groups