
Climate Action Alliance of the Valley climate, energy news roundup: May 30
The excerpt of the Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News for the week ending May 30.

The excerpt of the Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News for the week ending May 30.

The U.S. Senate voted 54-35 Friday in favor of creating a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection, falling six votes short of blocking a threatened Republican filibuster.

Eighty-five percent of Republicans want congressional nominees in the 2022 midterm cycle whose views align with deposed former president Donald Trump, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.

In another sign that the pandemic is done and dusted, Democrats are pushing for enforcement of unemployment claims as a means of getting people back to work.

While much has been reported about the American Rescue Plan providing needed relief to pandemic-battered cities, less has been written about the potential historic economic boost this policy could have on small towns and rural communities.

The Democratic National Committee has launched a significant ad buy in AAPI outlets across Virginia as part of a campaign to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month.

Republicans, who spent years using congressional subpoena powers to go on several anti-Democrat witch hunts (“Benghazi!”), are calling foul on this Jan. 6 commission, saying it reeks of politics. Something here reeks, and it ain’t the Jan. 6 commission.

Terry McAuliffe is the latest in a long line of “most electable” Democratic candidates.

Glenn Youngkin, who is lo-ho-ho-ho-oaded, is the Republican nominee for Virginia governor, at the end of a process that worked out about as well as it could for the Virginia GOP, considering.

Prescription drug prices burden the budgets of many. It is a problem that demands the attention of health care policymakers, but it must be solved correctly.