
Climate Action Alliance of the Valley News Update: Week of Dec. 6
Climate Action Alliance of the Valley produces The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News.

Climate Action Alliance of the Valley produces The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News.

Climate Action Alliance of the Valley produces The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News.

Rose Holm will invest $1.35 million to establish its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Henrico County.

Hitachi ABB Power Grids will invest $6.2 million to upgrade equipment and increase manufacturing capacity at its Bland County operation.

Gov. Ralph Northam celebrated the launch of Virginia’s first zero-emission electric buses on Friday as he ceremonially signed a new law that provides dedicated funding for the first time in Hampton Roads Transit’s history.

Energix Renewable Energies Ltd. will invest $1.1 million to establish its U.S. subsidiary headquarters in Arlington County.

A famous song of the 1920s went, “California, here I come.” Today, one might sing that line with dread rather than anticipation as rolling blackouts afflict California residents.

Virginia has become the newest member of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a market-based collaborative effort among Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states to combat climate change.

On the one side, two multibillion-dollar energy companies. The other: landowners, environmentalists, conservationists. The little guy never wins these kinds of fights. Even though, in this case, the little guy was actually a lot of little guys, and gals, and they had a great plan.

The Climate Action Alliance of the Valley (CAAV), a non-profit, grassroots group of volunteers in the Central Shenandoah Valley, produces “The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News” to inform legislators and the public.
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