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Governor Touts New Farm Environmental Program

How do you bring farmers, environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats in Virginia together?  How about a new program to protect the environment, while giving farmers in the Old Dominion a break from future regulations?  On Monday, August 25, Governor Terry McAuliffe and some Virginia lawmakers got together at a farm in Weyers Cave to celebrate the new program.  WMRA’s Andrew Jenner reports.

Andrew Jenner is a freelance reporter based in Harrisonburg. After working as a journalist in the Shenandoah Valley for a decade, he spent three years living and reporting in Brazil, returning to Harrisonburg in the summer of 2018. Andrew has reported for TheAtlantic.com, The Washington Post, Deutsche Welle, Discover, Modern Farmer, and many others. He is a graduate of Eastern Mennonite University, has a MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Goucher College, and almost made it onto Jeopardy! a few years ago.
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