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Virginia has one chance to critically assess NextEra Energy’s proposed acquisition of Dominion Energy.
Virginia has one chance to critically assess NextEra Energy’s proposed acquisition of Dominion Energy.
Back during the 2024 presidential cycle, Donald Trump told Big Oil, out loud, in public, if you will, that they needed to raise $1 billion to fund his campaign, and if they did, he’d make sure they’d get bang for their bucks.
We all use our phones, so the explosion in need for massive data centers, it’s our fault, but we’re also right to be upset at how we’re just letting these data centers go up with no concern for local and environmental impacts.
Virginia needs to strengthen state laws governing the review process for the proposed $66.8 billion purchase of Dominion Energy by the Florida-based NextEra Energy.

Gov. Abigail Spanberger said in an interview with VPM posted online on Wednesday that “no one single person should hold up the budget and potentially risk the entire economic stability of the Commonwealth of Virginia.”
Gov. Abigail Spanberger and House Democrats are on the same page with a do-nothing approach to data centers that they hope will continue the $1.9 billion annual tax breaks that go to developers of hyperscale data centers in Virginia.
The state budget is still being held up, almost entirely because Gov. Abigail Spanberger and House of Delegates Speaker Don Scott want to preserve tax breaks for developers of hyperscale data centers.
Glenn Youngkin’s dumb effort to withdraw Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative died for lack of continued support on Thursday.
Since Donald Trump reassumed the presidency, rank-and-file Democrats have been busy criticizing, for good reason, Trump’s unhinged exercise of power.
Donald Trump had his regime hit the pause button on offshore wind projects on the East Coast last month, because he doesn’t like “windmills.”
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