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
Controversial Maryland Data Center Bill Tests Governor’s Climate Credentials, Environmentalists Say By Aman Azhar
Pennsylvania’s Governor Wants to Cut Power Plant Emissions With His Own Cap-and-Invest Program By Jon Hurdle
Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper, Shouts Down Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro Over a Proposed ‘Hydrogen Hub’ By Kiley Bense
Tribes Meeting With Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Describe Harms Uranium Mining Has Had on Them, and the Threats New Mines Pose By Noel Lyn Smith
Wyoming Considers Relaxing Its Carbon Capture Standards for Electric Utilities, Scrambling Political Alliances on Climate Change and Energy By Jake Bolster
Q&A: Maryland’s First Chief Sustainability Officer Takes on the State’s Climate and Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goals By Aman Azhar
Q&A: Former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy on New Air Pollution Regulations—and Women’s Roles in Bringing Them About Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth
A Firm Planning a Drilling Spree in New York’s Southern Tier Goes Silent as Lawmakers Seek to Ban Use of CO2 in Quest for Gas By Peter Mantius
After Fighting a Landfill Expansion, Houston Residents Await EPA Consideration of Stricter Methane Regulations By Keaton Peters
New Demands to Measure Emissions Raise Cautious Hopes in Pennsylvania Among Environmental Sleuths Who Monitor Fracking Sites By Jake Bolster
Q&A: Robert Bullard Says 2024 Is the Year of Environmental Justice for an Inundated Shiloh, Alabama Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth
Chicago Sues 5 Oil Companies, Accusing Them of Climate Change Destruction, Fraud By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times
Enbridge Wants Line 5 Shutdown Order Overturned on Tribal Land in Northern Wisconsin By Phil McKenna, Noel Lyn Smith