
Climate Action Alliance of the Valley: Climate and Energy News Roundup
A third of Pakistan has been flooded and more than 1,000 people were killed in a “monster monsoon” that has swept away lives, homes, crops and bridges.

A third of Pakistan has been flooded and more than 1,000 people were killed in a “monster monsoon” that has swept away lives, homes, crops and bridges.

Solar panels are going up across the Chesapeake Bay watershed to help states reach their renewable energy targets. But, while working to achieve climate-related goals, solar fields have the potential to generate water pollution — through increased stormwater runoff.

State delegates and dozens of Farm Bureau women made some headway on issues impacting rural Virginians at a recent legislative roundtable event at the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation women’s leadership conference.

A solar installation on the roof of Massanutten Resort’s Woodstone building has been energized, and is now producing power.

Senate Democrats finally got something meaningful done, voting 51-50 on Sunday, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote, to pass a $750 billion healthcare, clean energy and tax bill.

Ancient giant sequoias in California, once considered impervious to flames, are again under threat from wildfires, this time in the Yosemite National Park.

Virginia Advanced Energy Economy, a business association, is disappointed in new regulatory guidance issued by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VDEQ) on Wednesday.

Unprecedented floods in South Asia and China have forced mass evacuations and left millions miserable.

Nonprofit group Solar United Neighbors is rolling out Ready, Set, Solar!, a new program that will simplify the process of installing solar panels by providing consumers with one-on-one guidance.

If we continue with more of the same, we can kiss 1.5°C goodbye. Even 2 degrees may be out of reach. And that would be catastrophe. This is madness. Addiction to fossil fuels is mutually assured destruction. — UN Secretary-General António Guterres Our climate crisis Christiana Figueres, a former UN climate chief and co-author of The Future…
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