Southeast

Virginia Lawmakers Try to Use Budget to Rejoin RGGI – But Success Is Questionable

State lawmakers added an amendment to the budget bill demanding the state rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative but draft changes could prompt a veto from Gov. Youngkin.

By Hannah Chanatry

Louisiana’s Toxic Air Is Linked to Low-Weight and Pre-Term Births

Jessica Kutz, The 19th

In the N.C. Governor’s Race, the GOP Frontrunner Is a Climate Denier, and the Democrat Doesn’t Want to Talk About It

By Daniel Shailer

South Carolina Poised to Transform Former Coal-Fired Plant Into a Gas Utility as Public Service Commission Approves Conversion

By Daniel Shailer

Chemours and DuPont Knew About Risks But Kept Making Toxic PFAS Chemicals, UN Human Rights Advisors Conclude

By James Bruggers

A Battery Company CEO on the ‘Massive’ Effect of the Inflation Reduction Act

By Dan Gearino

Hale Freezes Over

By Lee Hedgepeth

Developers Seek Big Changes to the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s Southgate Extension, Amid Sustained Opposition

By Hannah Chanatry

EPA and Alabama Power to Start Settlement Negotiations Over Coal Ash Storage near Mobile

By Lee Hedgepeth

Judge Orders Jail Time For Prominent Everglades Scientist

By Amy Green

Environmental Justice Advocates in Virginia Fear Recent Legal Gains Could Be Thwarted by Politics in Richmond

By Hannah Chanatry

Longleaf Pine Restoration—a Major Climate Effort in the South—Curbs Its Ambitions to Meet Harsh Realities

By Marianne Lavelle, and Sarah Whites-Koditschek and Dennis Pillion of AL.com

As Financial Turmoil Threatens Plans for an Alabama Wood Pellet Plant, Advocates Question Its Climate and Community Benefits

By Lee Hedgepeth

Q&A: Catherine Coleman Flowers Talks COP28, Rural Alabama, and the Path Toward a ‘Just Transition’

By Lee Hedgepeth

In Florida, Gen Z Activists Step Into the Fight Against Sugarcane Burning

By Michelle Mairena and Kyndall Hubbard, Youthcast Media Group

Alabama Wood Pellet Mill Seeks Millions in Climate Funds, but Critics Say It Won’t Cut CO2

By Dennis Pillion, AL.com

A Known Risk: How Carbon Stored Underground Could Find Its Way Back Into the Atmosphere

By Terry L. Jones and Pam Radtke, Floodlight

Little Publicized but Treacherous, Methane From Coal Mines Upends the Lives of West Virginia Families

By James Bruggers

In the Everglades, a Clash Portrayed as ‘Science vs. Politics’ Pits a Leading Scientist Against His Former Employer

By Amy Green