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
California Votes to Consider Health and Environment in Future Energy Planning By Emma Foehringer Merchant
Pennsylvania’s Governor Wants to Cut Power Plant Emissions With His Own Cap-and-Invest Program By Jon Hurdle
Wyoming Considers Relaxing Its Carbon Capture Standards for Electric Utilities, Scrambling Political Alliances on Climate Change and Energy By Jake Bolster
Colorado River States Have Two Different Plans for Managing Water. Here’s Why They Disagree By Alex Hager, KUNC
Just How Much Money Do CO2 Pipeline Companies Stand to Make From the Inflation Reduction Act? By Nicholas Kusnetz, Kristoffer Tigue
Q&A: Maryland’s First Chief Sustainability Officer Takes on the State’s Climate and Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goals By Aman Azhar
South Carolina Poised to Transform Former Coal-Fired Plant Into a Gas Utility as Public Service Commission Approves Conversion By Daniel Shailer
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
‘Nobody Really Knows What You’re Supposed to Do’: Leaking, Abandoned Wells Wreak Havoc in West Texas By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News and Carlos Nogueras, Texas Tribune
After Fighting a Landfill Expansion, Houston Residents Await EPA Consideration of Stricter Methane Regulations By Keaton Peters
Chemours and DuPont Knew About Risks But Kept Making Toxic PFAS Chemicals, UN Human Rights Advisors Conclude By James Bruggers