President Biden visits Prince William park to talk solar, youth involvement on Earth Day
Virginia set to receive $156 million from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency program
By Charlie Paullin, Virginia Mercury - April 23, 2024Virginia set to receive $156 million from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency program
By Charlie Paullin, Virginia Mercury - April 23, 2024'Environmental stewardship is how we return to honoring the great gift God has given us of this world,' the Rev. Sarah Wheedon said.
By Josh Israel - September 22, 2023The American Climate Corps will prioritize disadvantaged communities affected by climate change.
By Oliver Willis - September 22, 2023The federal grants are part of a $1 billion investment in urban forestry projects across the country.
By Oliver Willis - September 21, 2023'Why would we put ourselves at a disadvantage?' asked Sen. Tim Scott.
By Oliver Willis - August 24, 2023Tennessee Republican Rep. Andy Ogles' amendment would have barred federal studies of aviation turbulence from focusing on climate change.
By Josh Israel - July 20, 2023The funds, authorized in the Inflation Reduction Act, will go toward projects that will prepare communities for stronger storms, rising sea levels, and other results of a warming planet.
By Oliver Willis - June 20, 2023The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rule could help prevent 600 million metric tons of pollution.
By Oliver Willis - June 13, 2023Conservatives in Congress and Fox News pundits are making light of the dangerous air quality caused by Canadian wildfires that is posing a public health threat to millions of Americans.
By Emily Singer - June 09, 2023The House GOP caucus has refused to offer a bill to raise the debt ceiling without demands for budget cuts.
By Josh Israel - April 27, 2023House Republicans are threatening a catastrophic debt default if they don't get to make major cuts to historic climate change investments.
By Josh Israel - April 21, 2023Virginia Republicans want to decimate laws promoting clean energy and curbing greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.
By Josh Israel - April 18, 2023The Union of Concerned Scientists calls wind ‘one of the cleanest and most sustainable ways to generate electricity.’
By Josh Israel - March 29, 2023Fossil fuel companies have thrown their support behind the Lower Energy Costs Act.
By Josh Israel - March 28, 2023Republicans in Congress want to repeal investments in climate change infrastructure, weaken environmental laws, and reprioritize fossil fuels.
By Josh Israel - March 14, 2023A new report published by the Pew Research Center says the religiously unaffiliated are much more likely to say that climate change is an extreme or very serious problem.
By Associated Press - November 26, 2022Former President Donald Trump’s administration dismantled EPA regulations, postponed meaningful progress on emissions reduction and mainstreamed climate denial.
By Adrian Cole - November 17, 2022Washington Republican Senate nominee Tiffany Smiley avoids questions on how to deal with climate change that is already affecting her state.
By Josh Israel - November 04, 2022New York Republican Mike Lawler is pushing for more fossil fuel production in the face of climate change.
By Josh Israel - October 31, 2022Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Florida Power and Light allies to the utility oversight commission, which later approved the company’s rate hike.
By Adrian Cole - October 28, 2022‘I’m not a global warming person. I don’t want that label on me,’ Gov. Ron DeSantis said in 2018.
By Adrian Cole - October 18, 2022Funds allocated under the Inflation Reduction Act will be used to combat drought conditions in Southwestern states.
By Oliver Willis - October 14, 2022Changing climate, invasive species and pollution are threatening the wild rice plant harvested as a sacred food by Ojibwe people in Minnesota.
By Associated Press - September 25, 2022In 2020, Ohio Republican Senate nominee J.D. Vance said, ‘We of course have a climate problem in our society.’ Now he says there isn’t one.
By Josh Israel - September 01, 2022Multiple corporations are bringing production — and jobs — to the U.S. following policies championed by President Joe Biden.
By Oliver Willis - August 30, 2022The United States is projected to invest $514 billion in climate technology and green energy as a result of laws signed by President Joe Biden.
By Oliver Willis - August 24, 2022The Inflation Reduction Act passed on Friday on a party-line vote.
By Josh Israel - August 15, 2022President Joe Biden said, ‘Our children and grandchildren will remember this for many years to come: this bill changes their lives and secures their future more than almost anything Washington has done for decades.’
By Associated Press - August 13, 2022Every Republican in the Senate voted against the Inflation Reduction Act.
By Josh Israel - August 08, 2022The law would ‘be a huge step forward in the fight to preserve a livable planet and is one we need to take while we have the chance,’ the group Earthjustice said.
By Adrian Cole - August 05, 2022