As hurricane season continues, Virginians are once again experiencing the impacts of climate change – more intense storms, flooding, polluted waterways, and more. The commonwealth’s delayed-but-finally-approved budget agreement includes several different ways to...
Those who enroll in the American Climate Corps will learn how to install solar panels, restore coastal wetlands, fight wildfires, and more. The program aims to create a pipeline for these young people to get hired into the clean energy sector.
Nearly seven years after Hurricane Matthew damaged roughly 2,000 structures adding up to about $30 million in damages, Virginia Beach–and its residents–have taken several measures to address the city’s vulnerability to flooding and protect its economy.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin spent the first part of his term in office working to remove Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Now a lawsuit questions the governor’s authority to do so.
The law ensured that 63,000 Virginians were able to keep their health insurance, reduced the cost of insulin for over 36,000 seniors, and incentivized several manufacturers to invest in the state and create more clean energy jobs.
The new proposal from a group of 176 House Republicans would raise the retirement age for Social Security and Medicare, ban free school meals for students, cut spending on food aid, and more.
A new report finds that the Inflation Reduction Act will dramatically lower the cost of solar and wind energy projects, create millions of new jobs, and more.
House Republicans’ latest attack on the Inflation Reduction Act comes in the form of the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023, which would repeal or shorten clean energy and manufacturing incentives.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration has threatened to pull out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, something that will not only have the greatest effect on Virginia’s coastal towns, but will also have major implications both environmentally and politically.
