Five years into the landmark legislation, the state continues to debate how to meet the growing energy needs without sending ...

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin thinks states can shoulder more of the burden of disaster relief. Virginia Sen. Mark Warner ...

At the heart of the political fight over Virginia’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is a seemingly simple question: does a requirement that Virginia power plants pay for ...

As a result of Virginia’s withdrawal from RGGI under Youngkin, carbon dioxide emissions, which had initially dropped 22 percent from 2021 to 2023, increased by 20 percent in 2024, noted Holmes ...

A circuit court judge ruled that Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s removal of the state from a carbon cap-and-trade program, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), was unlawful and must be ...

In Virginia, utilities produce their own electricity and are allowed to recover the costs of the allowances from ratepayers. For a typical Dominion customer, the recovery amounted to a $2.39 monthly ...

A judge in Floyd County has ruled that Governor Glenn Youngkin’s effort to pull the state out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, was unlawful. Governor Youngkin issued an ...

Virginia had joined RGGI in 2021 under Youngkin’s predecessor, Ralph Northam, a Democrat, after the General Assembly passed a 2020 law to require the state’s participation in the pact.

A Circuit Court judge in the western part of the state has ruled that Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s decision to withdraw from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative was “unlawful.” The General Assembly passed ...

A circuit court judge has ruled that Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s removal of Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative was unlawful. Virginia had entered into RGGI, and was the first Southern ...

A Floyd County Circuit Court judge ruled this week that Gov. Glenn Youngkin‘s decision to withdraw Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative was unlawful, but the governor plans to appeal ...

RGGI has returned $827.7 million in utilities’ payments to Virginia, which has used $372.5 million for flood prevention projects and $413.9 million on energy efficiency projects to help low- and ...