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Virginian aims to grow energy out of tobacco funds.

Publication: The Washington Times
Publication Date: 06-APR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Virginian aims to grow energy out of tobacco funds.(PAGE ONE)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Amanda DeBard, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The land of tobacco is looking to renewable energy to revive itself.

A leader of Virginia's legislature wants to use tobacco money to finance a new energy research corridor much like those for high technology in California's Silicon Valley and medical research in Maryland.

Virginia House Speaker William J. Howell, Stafford Republican, told The Washington Times that he wants to turn southern Virginia, the tobacco-growing center of the commonwealth, into a hub for alternative-energy projects. His funding source: millions of dollars from a...



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