
Report reveals influence of ALEC on Virginia climate policy
The Sierra Club Virginia chapter and the Center for Media and Democracy released American Legislative Exchange Council Exposed.

The Sierra Club Virginia chapter and the Center for Media and Democracy released American Legislative Exchange Council Exposed.

Several local religious communities have come together to launch a weekly prayer vigil at the Virginia State Capitol to call for climate leadership and action.

It took over a decade for the global framework called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) to become official.

Virginia grandparents, moms, dads, and kids traveled to the General Assembly Building to demand climate action from state lawmakers at the Mama Summit.

A new report by the Sierra Club finds that pollution from two proposed pipelines would almost double the total emissions from existing power plants in Virginia.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders raised issue with the campaign of Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton for her lack of substance on climate change.

On Dec. 12, 195 countries assembled at the COP21 Climate Conference in Paris produced a 32-page agreement outlining goals to phase out CO2 emissions.

Well before the final negotiations of the COP21 climate talks in Paris, business was already making a big difference on the ground.

Youth movements to address global climate change can wield great power. One group is suing the U.S. government for not doing enough to ensure a safe planet for future generations; another cohort is on the ground in Paris, pressing the countries of the world to do the same.

A professor in Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment is launching a new project to enable scientists to look many decades ahead and predict the effectiveness of land management practices in agriculture and forestry to mitigate climate change.