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Virginia increasing targets for electric vehicle sales, following air pollution control board’s vote

Virginians in the market for electric cars received promising news last week, as the state Air Pollution Control Board approved new regulations that will make it easier to buy electric vehicles in the state in coming years.

Solutions

NC petition to curb carbon dioxide emissions advances

An NC commission will consider whether the state should join an initiative reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Solutions

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Environmentalists battle lawmakers, pork industry on biogas

Smithfield Foods and Dominion Energy are eager to turn hog waste into "biogas," but activists are trying to block the NC Farm Act.

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‘Flood City': Norfolk’s issues with sea level rise at center of new national podcast

Norfolk's no stranger to the limelight when it comes to sea level rise and climate change. Home to the world's largest naval base, our slice of Tidewater has been featured in countless government and nonprofit reports and in the dateline of national news stories on the issue.

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Shift from coal power leaves state air pollution regulators short of money

Permit fees – a key source of revenue for the state Environmental Protection Division's air protection branch – have declined and left the branch to deal with a $1 million shortfall,

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Judge sides with DEQ on Duke Energy coal ash removal

The judge finds that the Department of Environmental Quality had authority to order Duke Energy to excavate all of its coal ash pits.

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Virginia increasing targets for electric vehicle sales, following air pollution control board’s vote

NC petition to curb carbon dioxide emissions advances

Environmentalists battle lawmakers, pork industry on biogas

‘Flood City': Norfolk’s issues with sea level rise at center of new national podcast

Shift from coal power leaves state air pollution regulators short of money

The Interior is losing the battle to crack down on FOIA

Judge sides with DEQ on Duke Energy coal ash removal

Insurers leave Maui wildfire survivors in unsafe homes, families say

Seafood testing project aims to safeguard Indigenous food traditions

Texas debates over new oil and gas waste rule heat up

Op-ed: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you” — disabling environments in Cancer Alley and the Ohio River Valley

Op-ed: We mobilized to defend the EPA in Trump's first term. This time the stakes are even higher.

Scientists warn that 2023's extreme ocean heat may signal a major climate shift

Trump plans to dismantle climate funding from key law if elected

Australia weighs delay on 2035 climate goals amid US election uncertainty