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RGGI

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

The state’s former Republican governor illegally withdrew from RGGI. Now, a new Democratic governor is big on participation.

By Charles Paullin

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
Power lines run through West Reading, Pa. Credit: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

Pennsylvania to Leave RGGI as Part of an Overdue Budget Deal

By Jon Hurdle

A view of the coal-fired Keystone Generating Station in Shelocta, Pa. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Lawyers Spar Over Whether Pennsylvania Agency Has Authority to Issue Carbon Allowances to Power Plants

By Jon Hurdle

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin gives a speech on Feb. 24 in McLean, Va. Credit: Valerie Plesch/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Virginia Judge Pauses State’s Return To RGGI During Youngkin’s Appeal

By Charles Paullin

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin addresses the General Assembly during his State of the Commonwealth speech on Jan. 13. Credit: John C. Clark/The Washington Post via Getty Images

In Virginia, Democratic Lawmakers Clash With Youngkin Over RGGI Membership, Flood Relief

By Charles Paullin

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks during "Fox & Friends" at Fox News Channel Studios on Oct. 10 in New York City. Credit: John Lamparski/Getty Images

A Virginia Circuit Court Finds Youngkin’s Withdrawal from RGGI ‘Unlawful’

By Jake Bolster

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has opposed the state’s inclusion in RGGI, a two-decade old effort to reduce emissions among a group of eastern states. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Virginia Lawmakers Try to Use Budget to Rejoin RGGI – But Success Is Questionable

By Hannah Chanatry

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro prepares to speak before U.S. President Joe Biden takes the stage during a campaign event at Montgomery County Community College on Jan. 5 in Blue Bell, Pa. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

In His First Year as Governor, Josh Shapiro Forged Alliances With the Natural Gas Industry, Angering Environmentalists Who Once Supported Him

By Kiley Bense

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

Gov. Josh Shapiro drew the ire of many environmentalists when he appointed a 17-member working group on climate emissions reductions without revealing all of the names of panel members. Credit: Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images.

Shapiro Advisors Endorse Emissions Curbs to Fight Climate Change but Don’t Embrace RGGI Membership

By Kiley Bense

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

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has convened a working group representing Pennsylvania’s oil and gas industries, labor unions and environmental organizations to secretly consider membership in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images.

Documents Reveal New Details about Pennsylvania Governor’s Secret Working Group on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By Kiley Bense

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

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

Democrat Josh Shapiro delivers his victory speech on November 8, 2022, after his election as Pennsylvania governor. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images.

Secretive State Climate Talks Stir Discontent With Pennsylvania Governor

By Kiley Bense

A plume of exhaust extends from the Mitchell Power Station, a coal-fired power plant built along the Monongahela River, 20 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, on Sept. 24, 2013 in New Eagle, Pennsylvania. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

New Study Bolsters Case for Pennsylvania to Join Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

By Jon Hurdle

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

Walkers, buses and bike lanes. Credit: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images

States Vowed to Uphold America’s Climate Pledge. Are They Succeeding?

By Marianne Lavelle

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images

A Major Fossil Fuel State Is Joining the Northeast's Carbon Market. It's a Big Deal.

By Marianne Lavelle

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