Climate and Energy News Roundup: October 2024
Harrisonburg will add three new electric school buses to its fleet. It will own five electric buses after this purchase and has enough space to hold up to 10 in the transportation department’s garage.
Harrisonburg will add three new electric school buses to its fleet. It will own five electric buses after this purchase and has enough space to hold up to 10 in the transportation department’s garage.
Siemens Energy pleaded guilty in the criminal investigation into trade secrets surrounding bids for Dominion Energy’s turbine plant.
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace Inc. is getting $2.25 million from the Commonweath of Virginia to go toward its $101 million project to build a new assembly facility in James City County.
The JMU Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Energy is hosting a local tour as part of The American Solar Energy Society’s National Solar Tour.
Hurricane Ernesto will stay offshore of the United States, but it will cause unsettled weather in Virginia and dangerous rip currents on the coast.
The Climate Action Alliance of the Valley is a 2024 Clean Virginia Community Giving Program recipient.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced additional key administration and board appointments this week.

A South Korean energy company with a $3 trillion market cap is getting millions from Virginia to build a submarine cable manufacturing facility in Chesapeake.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced additional key administration and board appointments this week, including one veteran from Rockingham County.
More than 1.5 billion people — almost one-fifth of the planet’s population — endured at least one day this year when the heat index topped 103 degrees Fahrenheit, the threshold the National Weather Service considers life-threatening.
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