Virginian-Pilot: As further evidence of their discernment and the natural world’s degradation, Virginians are troubled about the condition of the environment and the prospects for improvement, according to a new study by researchers at Christopher Newport University. Specifically, Virginians are worried about mountaintop-removal mining of coal, as ecologically disastrous a practice as occurs just about anywhere; the dire and declining condition of the Chesapeake Bay; and the state of our other rivers …