Join Virginians across the Commonwealth for the March for a Moratorium, a two-week series of marches calling for a statewide pause on new data center development. Each march will feature local speake...

By Michelle Moore NextEra Energy is seeking to acquire Dominion Energy in a $66.8 billion deal that would create the world’s largest regulated utility monopoly–and a utility with unprecedented control...

Beneath the concerns that residents point out about data centers is a growing conviction that we are fighting for our future, columnist Ivy Main writes.

This week, Dominion Energy announced hundreds of new jobs to sweeten the deal for its proposed merger with Florida-based NextEra.

Silicon Valley is shifting away from chatbot queries toward a future filled with resource-intensive agentic AI—and it's driving the data center buildout.

Air pollution from gas-fired power plants to run data centers is expected to add at least $20 billion in annual health care costs by 2028, the group warns.

Locals are raising alarms over rare bacteria, forever chemicals, and other environmental concerns.

Amazon, Meta and Google risk losing decadeslong exemptions due to a backlash against their facilities

Every community deserves the opportunity to come together, discuss the available information, and consider how they'd like to approach massive projects like data centers. The purpose of this Town Hall...

The increasing demand on the region’s electrical infrastructure, likely exacerbated by data centers, is believed to be behind the outages, FCPS’ superintendent said.

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Virginia’s largest utility is asking regulators to OK a long-term plan to recoup costs for high fuel prices. The new charges could wipe out a proposed customer rebate from a NextEra acquisition.

As traditional insurers retreat from areas most vulnerable to extreme weather, more Americans struggling to find coverage are seeking out surplus line plans.

An NPR investigation found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat much more often than official counts show. We explore the reasons why — and how lives can be saved.

If NextEra acquires Dominion Energy to become the nation’s largest utility without the General Assembly acting to limit campaign spending, nothing will stop NextEra from flooding campaigns with so muc...

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As a proposed merger between NextEra and Dominion is scrutinized by regulators and the public, some critics have pointed to NextEra's political past in Florida as a cause for concern.

After the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality released a 117-page report indicating that available groundwater east of Interstate-95 is “declining (in) availability in the near future,” the a...