Climate leaders are back in control of the statehouse in Richmond. And that is very good news.
Because the last time there was a climate-action majority in Virginia’s House and Senate chambers (2020-2021), the Commonwealth took a truly great leap forward on addressing the climate change that, already today, uniquely threatens Virginia, its economy, and Virginians’ safety. Virginia’s climate action in 2020 and 2021 was bolder than any American state has taken in so short a time, both before and since. In those two short years, Virginia leapt from the back of the pack to the very front among climate leadership states.
Virginia’s climate leaders, now back in possession of the capitol, delivered 2020-2021 climate action in three key ways:
First, climate champs in Richmond ensured a keystone source of air pollution and climate harm in Virginia – fossil fueled power plants…