Skip to content
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Justice & Health
  • Fossil Fuels
  • Clean Energy
  • ICN Local
  • Projects
  • Impact
  • About Us
Inside Climate News
Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan reporting on the biggest crisis facing our planet.
Donate
Trump 2.0: The Reckoning
Inside Climate News
Donate

Search

  • Science
  • Politics
  • Justice & Health
  • Fossil Fuels
  • Clean Energy
  • ICN Local
  • Projects
  • Impact
  • About Us
  • Newsletters
  • ICN Sunday Morning
  • Contact Us

Topics

  • A.I. & Data Centers
  • Activism
  • Arctic
  • Biodiversity & Conservation
  • Business & Finance
  • Climate Law & Liability
  • Climate Treaties
  • Denial & Misinformation
  • Environment & Health
  • Extreme Weather
  • Food & Agriculture
  • Fracking
  • Nuclear
  • Pipelines
  • Plastics
  • Public Lands
  • Regulation
  • Super-Pollutants
  • Water/Drought
  • Wildfires

Information

  • About
  • Job Openings
  • Reporting Network
  • Whistleblowers
  • Memberships
  • Ways to Give
  • Fellows & Fellowships

Publications

  • E-Books
  • Documents

ICN Virginia

Data Center Tax Exemption Changes Still Holding Up Virginia Budget

A Democratic senator wants to end the $1.9 billion handout. The industry doesn’t want to cede that much.

By Charles Paullin

Virginia House Speaker Don Scott (left) and Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas speak with reporters on Wednesday. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News
A team of contractors work to install a Transco pipeline in Lebanon, Pa., on Oct. 6, 2017. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Transco Pipeline Project Faces Legal Challenge

By Lisa Sorg

Turbine blades for the Revolution Wind offshore wind project are seen at State Pier in New London, Conn., on Aug. 25, 2025. Credit: Tyler Russell/Connecticut Public via Getty Images

Who Loses in the Trump Administration’s $1 Billion ‘Deal’ to Abandon Offshore Wind?

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

In Austin, Texas, the Elemental Critical Data Center facility. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Texas Data Center Developers Play Offense on Water, Claiming Huge Cuts in Usage 

By Arcelia Martin

A vehicle is filled with gasoline at an Exxon station on April 1 in Arlington, Va., where prices exceed $4 per gallon. Credit: Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images

Virginia Republicans Want Tax Relief to Ease Gas Costs. There’s Also Electric Vehicles.

By Charles Paullin

Brian Faulknier speaks to the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

A Gas Plant Proposal for Rural Virginia Gets Local Land Use Approval

By Charles Paullin

Virginia Democrats Fail to Reach Compromise on Data Center Tax Exemption

By Charles Paullin

A rendering of Dominion Energy’s proposed Chesterfield Energy Reliability Center. Credit: Dominion Energy

Environmental, Community Groups to Challenge Regulators’ Approval of Dominion’s Gas Plant

By Charles Paullin

Substations and transformers are seen at a Digital Realty data center in Ashburn, Va., on Nov. 12, 2025. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Virginia Senate Proposes to End Data Center Tax Exemption in January

By Charles Paullin

The sun rises over corn crops on a farm in Franklin, Va. Credit: Kristen Zeis/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Virginia House Delays Action on Bill Banning Paraquat

By Charles Paullin

An aerial view of data centers in Ashburn, Va. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Virginia House Passes Data Center Tax Exemption, With Conditions

By Charles Paullin

Sen. Schuyler VanValkenburg (D-Henrico) speaks in support of solar siting legislation during a Virginia General Assembly meeting. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

Solar Siting Reforms Advance in Virginia After Years of Failed Attempts

By Charles Paullin

In Huntington Beach, California, a bird perches on a contamination containment boom in October 2021 as workers cleanup the Talbert Marsh after a spill off the coast of Huntington Beach threatens wildlife. Credit: Mindy Schauer/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

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

By Teresa Tomassoni

An aerial view shows cooling vent fans on the roof next to generators on the lower level of a Digital Realty data center in Ashburn, Virginia, in November 2025. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

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

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin (C) and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought (L), the architects of the Trump administration's climate and environmental justice grant terminations, at a 911 ceremony in Arlington, Virginia. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

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

By Lisa Sorg

Virginia's Democratic Attorney General Jay Jones listens to Gov. Abigail Spanberger's first State of the Commonwealth address on Monday, during which she endorsed the state's rejoining of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

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

By Charles Paullin

A federal judge on Friday issued a preliminary injunction, allowing work to begin again on wind turbines off the coast of Virginia. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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

By Charles Paullin

Cars pass a data center under construction in Ashburn, Va., on Nov, 12, 2025. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Marianne Lavelle, Kiley Bense

Posts pagination

1 2 … 7 Next

Virginia Newsletter

Hannah Chanatry

Contributor

Charles Paullin

Contributor

Sarah Vogelsong

Contributor

Partners

  • InsideNova.com
  • Virginia Mercury
  • Virginia Public Media
  • Williamsburg Yorktown Daily

Keep Environmental Journalism Alive

ICN provides award-winning climate coverage free of charge and advertising. We rely on donations from readers like you to keep going.

Donate Now
Inside Climate News
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Justice & Health
  • Fossil Fuels
  • Clean Energy
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Whistleblowers
  • Privacy Policy
  • Charity Navigator
Inside Climate News uses cookies. By continuing to use this site, you accept this policy. Learn More