What’s making news in climate, environment: January 2026 update
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Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger detailed her plans to make utility bills more affordable, as the cost of electricity continues to rise.
Search Results for clean energy
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Trump hits ‘pause’ button on offshore wind, citing ‘national security risks’
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Donald Trump, who famously doesn’t like “windmills,” had his underlings find an excuse to pause billions of dollars in offshore wind projects, and what they came up with his comical: “national security risks.”
Donald Trump weighing in on Jay Jones | We’ve now reached the stupid stage of this story
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Donald Trump is posting on the interwebs about Jay Jones, the Democratic Party nominee for attorney general, which is not surprising.
Environment | Revocation of conservation rule endangers 45M acres of public lands
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The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule established prohibitions on road construction on nearly 60 million acres of public lands.
Roddy Scheer: Are police, fire, EMS departments using electric vehicles today?
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While Tesla dominates the public attention, a wide array of models, such as those from Ford and Hyundai, are being employed in the public sector.
Getting to know: John McAuliff | Democrat looking to flip HD 30
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The 30th House District, covering a territory located between Winchester and the inner DC suburbs, seems ripe for the picking for Democrats in the 2025 cycle.
Bipartisan mistake | Pols applaud Google investing $9B in data center capacity in Virginia
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Google is investing an additional $9 billion in data centers in Virginia. This is supposed to be treated as good news – that we’re going to get more of these electricity hogs and environment killers.
Environmental advocates are up in arms over Trump’s Big Ugly Bill
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The recently passed Republican-driven legislative and economic package has sparked intense backlash among environmentalists, who argue that its contents represent a step backward for environmental protection and climate action.
Coalition calls out Department of Interior for prioritizing regulation over public interest
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The House energy coalition is concerned with an RFI by the the U.S. DOI and its intention with public land management in the United States.
‘Victory for the American public’: Outcry encourages removal of proposal to sell federal land
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A proposal to sell 2.2 to 3.3 million acres of public lands in the western U.S. was removed from President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
