Notebook: What’s making news today in the climate, environmental circles
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Virginia has one chance to critically assess NextEra Energy’s proposed acquisition of Dominion Energy.
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What California local climate does to material selection
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In California, fence specifications work reasonably well in some parts of the state and underperform significantly in others.
Earl Zimmerman: What’s making news in climate, energy, environment
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Dominion Energy and Florida-based NextEra Energy plan to merge to form the largest utility in the U.S. Clean Virginia, a nonprofit advocacy organization, urges extreme caution that this mega-merger does not put corporate profits ahead of customers.
Climate and Energy News Roundup: Are fossil fuel interests actually losing now?
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The Virginia General Assembly passed a bill to extend the EnergyShare program of Dominion Energy to 2038 and increase its budget.
Harrisonburg: City plants 10K trees on tree farm as part of climate effort
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A contractor planted more than 10,000 trees on City of Harrisonburg-owned tree farm this spring as part of an effort by the city to meet its climate goals.
Climate and Energy News Roundup: Everything complicated by war in Iran
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The Republican One Big Beautiful Bill Act subsidizes fossil fuels by an average of $3.5 billion each year, according to a new report from Senate Budget Committee Democrats.
Virginia drops appeal of RGGI ruling, setting stage for re-entry into climate program
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Glenn Youngkin’s dumb effort to withdraw Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative died for lack of continued support on Thursday.
Earl Zimmerman: March 2026 Climate and Energy News Roundup
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The Rockingham County Board of Supervisors unanimously rejected an application to build a 20-acre solar panel facility northeast of Harrisonburg.
W&L to host climate scientist Michael Mann, who the MAGAs here helped run off
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We had world-renowned climate scientist Michael Mann at the University of Virginia for a while, before he left for Penn State, then Penn – then Ken Cuccinelli, doing the bidding of the climate deniers, tried to play legal footsie with him.
Earl Zimmerman: February 2026 Climate and Energy News Roundup
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Solar can save Virginia farms if state and local government gets out of the way.
