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Study: Citizen science shows that climate change is rapidly reshaping Long Island Sound
This article discusses the efforts of citizen science showing that climate change is rapidly reshaping Long Island Sound.
Our study, published on March 21, shows how rapidly temperatures in eastern Long Island Sound have increased over the past four decades. At 0.45 degrees Celsius per decade, the sound is warming […]
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Virginia can be a key player in the wind energy industry
This article discusses how Virginia can be a key player in the wind energy industry.
An influx of wind turbines is planned for the U.S. East Coast, and Virginia could be a key player in a supply chain producing these massive structures.
Wind turbines already are spinning off Rhode Island, where the […]
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Florida utility to close natural gas plants, build massive solar-powered battery
This Ars Technica article discusses the future plans of a Florida utility – close its natural gas plants and build a massive solar-powered battery. On Thursday, Florida Power and Light (FPL) announced that it would retire two natural gas plants and replace those plants with what is likely to be the world’s largest […]
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Virginia schools have seen the light, and it’s solar
This Washington Post article discusses how Virginia schools are moving towards solar energy.
The Oakton High School student is far from alone in her fears about the planet’s future. Millennials and members of Generation Z acknowledge in greater numbers than their forebears that humans contribute to climate change. In […]
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Spotsylvania and Page Counties – Solar Farm Articles
The proposed solar farm in Spotsylvania, VA, is coming under close scrutiny, and the two proposed for Page County are under fire. Here are a slew of articles on them:
Welcome To Spotsylvania: The East Coast Battleground For Big Solar. The solar panels would be spread across 10 square miles, […]
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Delegate pushes for an explanation from DEQ on Mountain Valley Pipeline
This article discusses a politician’s request to Virginia’s DEQ to provide information on the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
Del. Chris Hurst, D-Montgomery, has asked the Department of Environmental Quality to issue a stop work order on the Mountain Valley Pipeline until a lawsuit filed by the state over hundreds of construction […]
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From tiny Cove Point on the Chesapeake, tankers take natural gas around the world. At what cost?
This article discusses the shipment of natural gas across the world from tiny Cove Point on the Chesapeake, but at what cost?
In a quiet pocket of Southern Maryland where beach bungalows line dirt roads to the Chesapeake Bay, the nation’s booming natural gas industry has established an unlikely multibillion-dollar […]
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Northam vetoes two bills he says would restrict his options on climate change
This article discusses two bills that were vetoed by Virginia Governor Northam because they would restrict his options on curbing carbon emissions from power plants and vehicles.
The proposals, both introduced by Del. Charles Poindexter, R-Franklin County, would have barred the state from entering two regional programs aimed at reducing carbon […]
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When environmental racism and climate change collide
This article discusses when environmental racism and climate change collide. ‘They chose us because we were rural and poor’.
The environmental movement has a long history in America’s south – yet people of color and impoverished communities continue to face dangerous pollution.
It doesn’t surprise me that the environmental justice movement began in […]
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The Dirty South is getting cleaner energy.
This article discusses how the Dirty South is getting cleaner. Atlanta’s City Council voted unanimously Monday to ensure all buildings in the city — homes, businesses, and city-owned structures — run on renewable energy by 2035.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the city currently gets less than 10 percent of its energy […]
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