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Fishing communities often catch spent cannon shells, missiles and rockets settled in the riverbed as a result of weapons testing in the Potomac River by the Naval Support Facility in Dahlgren, Virginia. Courtesy: Potomac Riverkeeper Network

Advocates Celebrate a Legal Win Against US Navy’s Staggering Pollution in the Potomac River. A Lack of Effective Regulation Could Dampen the Spirit

By Aman Azhar

A piece of the Mountain Valley Pipeline sits in Rocky Mount, Virginia on Aug. 30, 2022. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Developers Seek Big Changes to the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s Southgate Extension, Amid Sustained Opposition

By Hannah Chanatry

Sections of steel pipe of the Mountain Valley Pipeline sit on wooden blocks in August 2022 near wetland areas in Callaway, Virginia. The state's General Assembly has diminished the power of residents to engage in the decision-making process for permitting and siting such projects as the Mountain Valley Pipeline under the state Department of Environmental Quality, a key environmental justice provision under Virginia law. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Environmental Justice Advocates in Virginia Fear Recent Legal Gains Could Be Thwarted by Politics in Richmond

By Hannah Chanatry

Amazon Web Services data centers are seen next to the Great Oak neighborhood on Jan. 24, 2023, in Manassas, Virginia. Credit: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Virginia Environmental Groups Form New Data Center Reform Coalition, Call for More Industry Oversight

By Jake Bolster

Dominion Energy has proposed building a new natural gas power plant in Chesterfield, Virginia. Credit: Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Nearby Residents and Environmentalists Criticize New Dominion Natural Gas Power Plant As a ‘Slap In the Face’

By Jake Bolster

The Dominion Energy headquarters in Richmond, Virginia. Credit: Zach Gibson/Getty Images

Dominion’s Proposed Virginia Power Plant Casts Doubt on Its Commitments to Clean Energy

By Jake Bolster

Virginia voters cast their ballots at Newton-Lee Elementary School on Tuesday in Ashburn, Virginia. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

With Democrats Back in Control of Virginia’s General Assembly, Environmentalists See a Narrow Path Forward for Climate Policy

By Hannah Chanatry

Sections of steel pipe of the Mountain Valley Pipeline lie on wooden blocks on Aug. 31, 2022 in Bent Mountain, Virginia. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Federal Regulators Raise Safety Concerns Over Mountain Valley Pipeline in Formal Notice

By Phil McKenna

Virginia state Senator Chap Petersen at work in the statehouse. Credit: Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images.

Q&A: Dominion Energy, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and Virginia’s Push Toward Renewables

By Jake Bolster

Andrew Wheeler arrives for a House Appropriations Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington in March 2020, when he served as President Donald Trump's administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Wheeler currently is head of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's newly created Office of Regulatory Management. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.

Trump’s Former Head of the EPA Has Been a Quiet Contributor to Virginia’s Exit From RGGI

By Jake Bolster

Mechelle Esparza stands in front of Serene Wildlife Sanctuary on June 25. Credit: Ananya Chetia

South Richmond Residents Oppose Fire Training Facility

By Ananya Chetia

Power lines in Alexandria, Virginia. Credit: Thomas Simonetti/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Country’s Largest Grid Operator Must Process and Connect Backlogged Clean Energy Projects, a New Report Says

By Kathiann M. Kowalski

Glenn Youngkin speaks during an election-night rally at the Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles on Nov. 2, 2021 in Chantilly, Virginia. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

As Youngkin Tries to Pull Virginia Out of RGGI, Experts Warn of Looming Consequences for Low-Income Residents and Threatened Communities

By Jake Bolster

Beyond Methane RVA volunteer Megan Stueber measures for gas leaks while Lee Williams hands out informative flyers on methane leaks on Grove Avenue on June 9, 2023. Credit: Ananya Chetia

Methane Activists in Richmond Detect Potentially Dangerous Gas Leaks

By Ananya Chetia

Robinallen Austin, a member of Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights, (POWHR) overlooks land in the distance where 42 diameter sections of steel pipe have not been buried of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, MVP, on Aug. 31, 2022 in Bent Mountain, Virginia. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Environmentalists in Virginia and West Virginia Regroup to Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline, Eyeing a White House Protest

By Jake Bolster

A driver passes through a street flooded by rain from Hurricane Irene on Aug. 28, 2011 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Credit: Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images

Flood-Prone Communities in Virginia May Lose a Lifeline if Governor Pulls State Out of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

By Emma Ricketts

Maryland, Virginia Race to Save Dwindling Commercial Fisheries in the Chesapeake Bay

By Aman Azhar

Environmental and slow-growth activists watch and listen to the Prince William County Board of Supervisors as they vote on a controversial data center proposal, the 2,100 acre data center complex in Prince William's Rural Crescent, in Woodbridge, Virginia on Nov. 1, 2022. Credit: Valerie Plesch for The Washington Post via Getty Images

In Northern Virginia, a Coming Data Center Boom Sounds a Community Alarm

By Aman Azhar

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