
What’s making news in climate, environment: January 2026 update
Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger detailed her plans to make utility bills more affordable, as the cost of electricity continues to rise.

Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger detailed her plans to make utility bills more affordable, as the cost of electricity continues to rise.
Pay-to-play schemes. Protection rackets. Extortion. Corruption. Self-enrichment. Graft. Grift. Brutality. Roaming bands of thugs smashing car windows and terrorizing communities.
The Climate Action Alliance of the Valley is organizing a Climate Action Celebration and Call to Action at the Massanutten Regional Library on Tuesday, Nov. 11.
The East Coast is expected to deal with another round of dangerous weather as a coastal storm is now predicted next week.
Beaches in some areas of the Outer Banks remain closed due to damage caused by two dual hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean.
About 20 people joined the sustainable farm event organized by Shenandoah Valley Faith & Climate on Saturday, Sept. 20.
While hurricanes Imelda and Humberto did not make landfall in the U.S., the storms still delivered destruction in the Outer Banks.
Two tropical systems are developing that could impact the East Coast, including Virginia, early next week.
What we are witnessing is not a government of the people, by the people, and for the people; it is a government over the people.
The Trump administration has terminated $679 million in what it termed in a press release “doomed” offshore wind projects, including $39 million earmarked for the City of Norfolk.
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