The company says it can help large loads better respond to changing weather conditions as data centers are asked to play a more active role in grid management.

A proposed mining project off the Delmarva Peninsula is after minerals in heavy sands. Locals worry it would harm an important ecosystem.

A proposed mining project off the Delmarva Peninsula is after minerals in heavy sands. Locals worry it would harm an important ecosystem.

Increasing energy demands and emissions from data centers raise questions about how to speed up decarbonization.

The state will tax data center electricity but plans to reduce emissions at the facilities and secure environmental protections went nowhere.

The state will tax data center electricity but plans to reduce emissions at the facilities and secure environmental protections went nowhere.

The state will tax data center electricity but plans to reduce emissions at the facilities and secure environmental protections went nowhere.

An extended deadline and expiring funding cloud the question of bringing federally recognized tribes into the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement as full partners.

Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger wants data centers to pay for the essential cables that carry electricity.

WILLOW, Alaska—Corey Ercolani pulled a northern pike from a gillnet and slit its belly with a knife. Inside its guts lay fresh evidence of a growing biological crime: a dead juvenile salmon. A coho, o...

As the barrier island loses land and residents, engineered efforts could combat the rising sea water that surrounds it.

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission stops short of fulfilling the Trump administration’s wishes but puts regional grid operators on a “short leash.”

Amid a data center boom in the state, the tech giant backpedals on a key climate promise.

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The president may have backed off killing the agency outright, but his FEMA Review Council clearly sees a much reduced emergency management role for the federal government.

NextEra’s blockbuster deal with Dominion means the largest electricity company stands to benefit even more from AI growth. But what does it mean for ratepayers?

NextEra’s blockbuster deal with Dominion means the largest electricity company stands to benefit even more from AI growth. But what does it mean for ratepayers?

Legislation includes profit recovery provisions for the energy company, increased State Corporation Commission authority.

Officials at the Everglades migrant detention facility told vendors this week the site would close as soon as early June. Conservation groups say they will continue their litigation over environmental...

Changes would allow companies to begin more construction before an air permit is issued—ramping up the pressure for permit approval.

Gov. Abigail Spanberger sought additional ratepayer protections. Without them she must consider assigning costs to data centers, continuing a utility profit-boosting program.

A Democratic senator wants to end the $1.9 billion handout. The industry doesn’t want to cede that much.

Years of debate on electric vehicles in Virginia have slowed the transition, now under full Democratic control.

The Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors went against the county planning commission’s recommendation to reject the project after months of debate.

RICHMOND, Va.—Virginia lawmakers under Democratic control failed to produce a budget on schedule Thursday because of heightened debates over a tax exemption for data centers. Lawmakers from both chamb...

New and existing data centers could continue receiving a break on the state’s retail sales and use tax, as long as they moved away from fossil fuels and tried to reduce energy usage.

The pledge is nonbinding and unlikely to bring immediate relief on electricity bills. Making it real will fall to utilities and regulators.

The pledge is nonbinding and unlikely to bring immediate relief on electricity bills. Making it real will fall to utilities and regulators.

The president is scheduled to unveil his Ratepayer Protection Pledge as he greenlights data centers to power America’s race for artificial intelligence.

As Democrats and climate activists seize on energy costs as a political issue, new data shows electricity rates rose 5 percent nationwide in 2025. The figures were much higher in some states.

An appeal to be filed on their behalf by the Southern Environmental Law Center will argue that the new plant in Chesterfield County would not comply with either the state’s environmental justice or cl...

Leadership said its ‘firm as concrete’ in holding to the date. The industry warns it could halt investment in the state.

The lethal pesticide is banned in Europe, China and many other countries. But not a single state in the U.S. has followed suit, despite research indicating that paraquat exposure increases the risks o...

New and existing data centers could continue receiving a break on the state’s retail sales and use tax, as long as they moved away from fossil fuels and tried to reduce energy usage.

Legislation would create a set of statewide development standards as guidance for localities that have become resistant to solar.

RICHMOND, Va.—The U.S. Department of Energy used the Federal Power Act on Monday to allow data centers within the regional grid operated by PJM Interconnection, including those in Virginia, to use gen...

RICHMOND, Va.— Virginia’s newly elected Democratic Attorney General Jay Jones took action Thursday that creates a pathway for Virginia to rejoin the carbon market called the Regional Greenhouse Gas In...

NORFOLK, Va.—U.S. District Court Judge Jamar K. Walker granted Dominion Energy a preliminary injunction on Friday, pausing a stop work order from the Trump administration and allowing the utility to r...

Provisions could cut down on speculative growth in the data center sector, but don’t go far enough in protecting residential ratepayers, consumer advocates say.

The state’s Department of Environmental Quality would expand permissible uses during emergencies to include “planned outages” by grid operators, presumably for power line upgrades. Environmentalists s...

In a letter to Congress, the groups said data center development raises concerns about rising energy costs, water use and climate impacts. Many communities are fighting back.

Dominion Energy presented the Chesterfield peaker plant as an answer to ensuring grid reliability. Some residents and clean energy advocates disagree.

Fluvanna County planners will vote in January to assess whether a proposal by Tenaska Energy fits its comprehensive plan.