ICN Virginia

Virginia House Delays Action on Bill Banning Paraquat

The lethal pesticide is banned in Europe, China and many other countries. But not a single state in the U.S. has followed suit, despite research indicating that paraquat exposure increases the risks of Parkinson’s disease.

By Charles Paullin

Virginia House Passes Data Center Tax Exemption, With Conditions

By Charles Paullin

Solar Siting Reforms Advance in Virginia After Years of Failed Attempts

By Charles Paullin

New Analysis Warns Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Could Trigger Thousands of Oil Spills

By Teresa Tomassoni

Data Centers in PJM Grid Can Rely Solely on Generators During the Cold, DOE Rules

By Charles Paullin

Scientists Push for More Ambitious Climate Targets

By Bob Berwyn

Trump’s Grant Terminations Upheld by Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

By Lisa Sorg

Virginia Attorney General Takes Steps to Rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

By Charles Paullin

Federal Court Allows Dominion Energy in Virginia to Continue Offshore Wind Project

By Charles Paullin

Clean Energy Advocates Criticize ‘Glaring’ Omission in White House Plan to Fuel Data Centers in PJM Region

By Marianne Lavelle, Kiley Bense

Virginia Regulators Approve New Dominion Rates, Assign More Costs to Data Centers

By Charles Paullin

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

Can a Flood-Prone Coastal City Learn to Live With Water?

By Phred Dvorak

Virginia Regulators Weigh Expanded Use of Data Center’s Polluting Generators 

By Charles Paullin

Virginia Regulators Approve First New Gas Plant Since Passage of Clean Economy Act

By Charles Paullin

After Missing 2025 Goals, Chesapeake Bay Leaders Agree on Longer Timeline and Tribal Role in Cleanup

By Aman Azhar

Members of America’s Largest Power Grid Can’t Agree on How to Power Data Centers

By Rambo Talabong

County Planning Commission in Virginia Delays Vote Again on Proposed Gas Plant That Aims to Link to PJM Grid

By Charles Paullin

Gas Pipeline Proposals in Virginia Multiply Through the South—and Worry Community Activists

By Charles Paullin