Citizens’ Climate Lobby -Richmond VA

05/11/2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/us/politics/trump-buffalos-montana.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hlA.T2uD.6lmrHLbxcjk5&smid=nytcore-ios-share

The Trump administration is evicting bison herds from federal grasslands in Montana, siding with ranchers and Republican leaders over environmentalists and tribal leaders.

05/10/2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/climate/amazon-rain-forest-deforestation-climate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hVA.2V3T.1pBmkFLYEKUX&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ecosystem collapse could unfold.

04/18/2026

04/18/2026

https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-week-us/20260410/281621016901062

Middle East wars are “no longer fought solely over oil,” said Yusuf Tosun. As the region’s pop­u­la­tion grows and the cli­mate crisis gets more dire, fresh water is becom­ing an increas­ingly scarce com­mod­ity, trans­form­ing this basic “source of...

04/18/2026

https://www.alternet.org/supreme-court-shadow-docket-2676761201/

The conservative U.S. Supreme Court increasingly relies on the secretive shadow docket to derail clean air standards and remove guardrails on a Trump White House, but the New York Times managed to nab confidential correspondence from 2016 that provides insight on the furtive court’s effort to dism...

04/14/2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/business/scott-bessent-climate-change-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.a1A.uwSk.TcKrlTUF9J1I&smid=nytcore-ios-share

The Treasury secretary said it is “difficult to deconstruct” the reasons for global warming, which he described as a belief of the “elite.”

04/13/2026

https://virginiamercury.com/briefs/spanberger-joins-other-governors-in-push-for-pjm-to-prioritize-ratepayer-protections/

Gov. Abigail Spanberger joined other governors to push the regional grid operator to adopt policies and regulations that help shield ratepayers.

04/08/2026

https://virginiamercury.com/2026/04/08/new-virginia-laws-take-aim-at-forever-chemicals/

Virginia’s new legislation won’t stop these chemicals from being produced and used in consumer products, or from getting into waterways but could reduce how much PFAS gets into the food produced on Virginia farms, columnist Ivy Main writes.

03/25/2026

https://virginiamercury.com/briefs/dominion-produces-first-power-from-coastal-virginia-offshore-wind-project/

Dominion Energy’s major Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project is now sending power to the grid, after its first commercial turbine was switched on Monday

03/16/2026

https://www.commondreams.org/news/california-oil-spill

As Sable Offshore Corp. confirmed that oil is flowing again thanks to a war-related order from Trump, a conservation campaigner said he was "distressed and saddened that California's coast now faces the threat of another oil disaster from this unsafe pipeline."