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Microsoft’s Clean Energy Reversal Collides With Virginia’s Climate Goals

Amid a data center boom in the state, the tech giant backpedals on a key climate promise.

By Charles Paullin

A Microsoft data center is seen under construction behind a recently constructed Amazon data center in Aldie, Va., on Jan. 20, 2023. Credit: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Construction of an Amazon data center is seen in front of Talen Energy’s nuclear power plant in Salem Township on Oct. 10, 2025. Credit: Jason Ardan/Citizens' Voice via Getty Images

As Tech Groups Predict Huge Pennsylvania Data-Center Growth, Critics Say Some Bills Would Reduce Local Control

By Jon Hurdle

Construction of an Amazon Web Services data center in Salem Township, Pa., on Oct. 10, 2025. Credit: Jason Ardan/Citizens’ Voice via Getty Images

Grassroots Resistance to Data Centers Rises in Pennsylvania

By Jon Hurdle

Farmers use a self-driving tractor to sow wheat on a farm in Zhangye, China. Credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images

The Farming Industry Has Embraced ‘Precision Agriculture’ and AI, but Critics Question Its Environmental Benefits

By Georgina Gustin

Indigenous activists gather outside Cargill's Santarem, Brazil, facility on Jan. 22, 2026. Credit: CITA Communications

Protesters Target Cargill at One of the Company’s Major Amazonian Ports

By Georgina Gustin

An Ecuadorian squirrel monkey in the trees of Yasuni National Park in Ecuador. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Countries Want Debt Relief for Conservation. Is China Ready to Play a Role?

By Katie Surma, Georgina Gustin

Amazon data centers loom over houses at the edge of a neighborhood in Loudoun County, Va. Credit: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images

How Did This State Become the Data Center Capital of the World?

By Dan Gearino, Charles Paullin

Ed Baine, president of Dominion Energy Virginia, takes questions during the utility’s rate case hearing on Wednesday. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

Dominion Energy and Big Tech Maneuver Over Pivotal Rate Decision in Virginia

By Charles Paullin

Transmission lines stand above a multi-use path adjacent to homes in Loudoun County, Va. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

Virginia Regulator Approves Electricity Transmission Line and Towers in Alexandria to Serve One Proposed Data Center

By Charles Paullin

President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order during the “Winning the AI Race” summit at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Trump’s AI Action Plan Waives Federal Environmental Rules in the Development of Data Centers

By Arcelia Martin

President Donald Trump arrives to speak to guests and investors at the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University on Tuesday in Pittsburgh. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Trump Hails $90 Billion in Corporate Investment to Make Pennsylvania an AI Hub, Fueled by Natural Gas

By Marianne Lavelle, Kiley Bense

Fernando Trujillo (right) and his team carry a pink river dolphin to shore to conduct a health assessment on the endangered animal. Credit: Teresa Tomassoni/Inside Climate News

One Man’s Quest to Protect Pink River Dolphins

By Teresa Tomassoni

People walk through the hallways at Equinix Data Center in Ashburn, Va., on May 9. Credit: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Washington Post via Getty Images

A Data Center Fight Touches on a Big Question: Who Assumes the Financial Risk for the AI Boom?

By Dan Gearino

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

An aerial view of the quilombola community of São João on the Itacuruçá River in Abaetetuba, Pará, Brazil. Credit: Cícero Pedrosa Neto

“Carbon Cowboys” Chasing Emissions Offsets in the Amazon Keep Forest-Dwelling Communities in the Dark

By Sam Schramski and Cícero Pedrosa Neto

Paiter-Surui volunteers alongside "forest engineers" from a Brazillian Government support program using GPS equipment to map and measure the trees and vegetation in the "7th September Indian Reserve" in Rondônia, Brazil. This information is intended to later be used to calculate the forest carbon content as part of REDD+, which stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project" was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. Credit: Craig Stennett/Getty Images.

Carbon Offsets to Reduce Deforestation Are Significantly Overestimating Their Impact, a New Study Finds

By Keerti Gopal

In a file photo, a Cargill facility on the Tapajos River in Santarem, a town on the trans-Amazonian highyway, in Brazil's Para state. Credit: NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP via Getty Images.

Activist Group ‘Names and Shames’ Cargill and Its Heirs to Keep Deforestation Promises

By Georgina Gustin

Activists hold up a banner of Jair Bolsonaro as they gather in front of the Brazilian Embassy during a demonstration organized by Extinction Rebellion activists on Aug. 26, 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. Credit: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images

Indigenous Leaders and Human Rights Groups in Brazil Want Bolsonaro Prosecuted for Crimes Against Humanity

By Katie Surma

Smokes rises from forest fires in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, in the Amazon basin, on Aug. 27, 2019. Credit: Joao Laet/AFP via Getty Images

Climate Summit ‘Last Chance’ for Brazil to Show Leadership on Global Warming

By Augusta Saraiva

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