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
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
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
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