Why is this important? Virginia DEQ has documented repeated environmental violations during construction of the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project (SSEP) in Pittsylvania County. Inspections found f...

After years of explosive growth with relatively little public resistance, Virginia’s data center industry is facing a more organized opposition. At a packed town hall at Studio Two Three in Richmond, ...

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality stepped into a fight over powering AI facilities with natural gas turbines. It could shape the industry’s

Virginia families are about to get stuck with the bill for an out-of-state corporate takeover. NextEra wants regulators to approve its acquisition of Dominion Energy, and ratepayers like you will be...

The rally comes as conversations about data center development take center stage in Virginia.

Our leaders are failing us on data centers. Join us to call on our decision-makers to put people over data centers! As Virginia's data center growth accelerates, protections for our communities, our...

Please join Friends of Chesterfield, Sierra Club-Virginia Chapter and Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) as we rally against the Dominion Energy-NextERA Merger. This massive merger is only abou...

The proposed campus could disturb streams and possible unmarked graves.

The internet didn’t get worse by accident; it’s been systematically molded into what we have today. Join Wendy Liu live in conversation with Cory Doctorow about Cory's latest book, Enshittification. C...

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Proposals for data centers are popping up all across the U.S. We need to hit the brakes on the completely unregulated deployment of massive data center projects that are straining our water resources,...

Big Tech data centers are driving up electricity demand, and utilities want to stick Virginians with the bill by building new gas plants. Virginia lawmakers can stop this. SB619 would require data cen...

Virginia has become a global hub for data centers — but all of the rewards the industry reaps here must come with real responsibility. Right now, data centers are driving up our electricity bills. N...

Greater energy efficiency and load shifting could help meet rising electricity needs at a fraction of the cost of building new power plants.

Dominion Energy looks to build a new route of high-voltage transmission lines. However, the surrounding Loudoun County community has worries.

Dominion Energy was handed two major approvals from the State Corporation Commission on Tuesday after the board OK’d the controversial Chesterfield Energy Reliability Center as well as the utility’s n...

I just signed up for an extremely important and interesting webinar about fossil fuels in our regional electric grid on Thursday, October 9 at 6pm ET. Join me!

Ecological grief and anxiety are valid and potentially adaptive responses to climate change, but research on effective interventions for coping with these emotions remains limited. In this article, we...

The awards were announced at the Bonner Foundation’s annual Summer Leadership Institute, held at UR.

The Department of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability, and the Environmental Studies Program in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Richmond (UR) invites applicants for a f...

EPA expressed alarm at contamination in a creek near a predominantly Black neighborhood. Then the agency eliminated its civil-rights office and has taken no further action.

Moving Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) by Rail is a disaster waiting to happen. Many of you already know that because you followed the issue and signed the petitions we circulated to stop it last time Tru...

If the allegations contained in a lawsuit are true, it demonstrates a willful endangerment of citizens and a gross violation of federal laws and policies.

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The Mountain Valley Pipeline and the corporate gas giant that owns it face a federal wrongful termination lawsuit from a Texas man who says he was fired from a welding inspector position for raising p...

On Saturday, roughly 150 people asked U.S. Rep. Rob Whittman, R-Westmoreland, to push back on Trump administration’s sweeping immigration reforms and spending cuts

Mountain Valley says Southgate is needed to deliver natural gas to North Carolina. Opponents argue that the proposal has changed from the original plan and needs a brand-new regulatory review.

Kamala Harris needs to lead the country in addressing this biggest of all problems: our climate crisis and the dominance of the fossil fuel industry in our politics and policies.