Climate and Energy News Roundup: May 2025
Renew Rocktown, an emerging local umbrella environmental organization, hosted an Earth Day luncheon that drew together 100 environmental leaders to celebrate past accomplishments.
Renew Rocktown, an emerging local umbrella environmental organization, hosted an Earth Day luncheon that drew together 100 environmental leaders to celebrate past accomplishments.
Climate STARR (Strategies for Trauma, Action, Resilience, & Regeneration) training in response to our climate crisis is being held at Eastern Mennonite University.
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.
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.
Concurrent with deploying new, better buses, Harrisonburg’s Department of Public Transportation revealed a new branding.
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.”
The Friendly City Food Co-op received the 2024 Valley Treasure Award from the Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley.
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.
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.
The Climate Action Alliance of the Valley is a 2024 Clean Virginia Community Giving Program recipient.
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