When Cardinal News sketched which western Virginia sites might qualify under Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s new data center study, the list read like a map of the region’s industrial past: former coal lands in Buchanan, Dickenson and Wise counties, the old Radford Foundry, Roanoke County’s Smith Gap landfill, and the former Kim-Stan landfill outside Clifton Forge. The governor’s executive order asks the state to identify brownfields and previously de…
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