Citizens for Responsible Solar was formed by concerned citizens in response to the destruction of the rural landscape in Virginia by industrial-scale solar development. In 2018, three industrial-scale solar projects targeted Culpeper, VA and submitted applications to develop thousands of acres of farmland, woodlands and rural acreage and replace them with hundreds of thousands of solar panels. These projects proposed devastating impact to the environment, threatened historic land, purported questionable economic benefits to the local community and undermined resident property values. Unfortunately, we found that this story was being repeated across the state and all over the U.S.  First and foremost, we are working hard to protect Culpeper, VA from the continued onslaught of aggressive solar developers, and we are supporting rural residents across the country in their own challenge to preserve their health, safety, rural lifestyle and property.