Climate and Energy News Roundup: July 2025
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Jeff Heie, the founder and director of the local nonprofit GiveSolar, received a Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions 2025 Sustainability Champions Award.
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Charlottesville: CATEC solar array big step toward meeting city climate goals
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Work has begun on the installation of a 262.9 kW solar photovoltaic rooftop array at the Charlottesville Area Technical Education Center that will account for more than 60 percent of the building’s energy consumption.
Climate and Energy News Roundup: June 2025
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Local Climate News The Vine & Fig Educational Outreach program, called the “The Fresh Veggie Series,” purchases fresh local food from regenerative farms. They deliver the veggies and educational materials each week through five partner farms and 30 regional networks like health clinics, after school youth programming, and section 8 housing locations. The Rockingham County…
House energy coalition decries Republicans’ ‘Big Ugly Tax Scam’ as reckless
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House Republicans voted for polluting corporations and against clean energy tax credits and America’s manufacturing sector Wednesday night.
Climate and Energy News Roundup: May 2025
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Renew Rocktown, an emerging local umbrella environmental organization, hosted an Earth Day luncheon that drew together 100 environmental leaders to celebrate past accomplishments.
Climate and Energy News Roundup: April 2025
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Climate STARR (Strategies for Trauma, Action, Resilience, & Regeneration) training in response to our climate crisis is being held at Eastern Mennonite University.
Climate and Energy News Roundup: February 2025
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Because of the growth of power-hungry data centers, Virginia now imports more electricity than any other state. The electricity imported from neighboring states is both more expensive and more dependent on fossil fuels.
Staunton farm, Augusta, Albemarle businesses awarded USDA clean energy grants
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Three local small businesses are included in a $180 million USDA investment into wind, solar and other forms of clean energy through the Rural Energy for America Program.
Earl Zimmerman: Climate and Energy News Roundup
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Concurrent with deploying new, better buses, Harrisonburg’s Department of Public Transportation revealed a new branding.
Earl Zimmerman: Climate and Energy News Roundup – December 2024
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A Circuit Court judge has ruled that Gov. Youngkin’s effort to administratively withdraw Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) was illegal “and therefore void as a matter of law.”
