Virginia “Clean” Economy Act is called ‘a dangerous mistake’

https://www.cfact.org/2022/01/31/tell-lawmakers-the-virginia-clean-economy-act-is-a-dangerous-mistake/ By Craig Rucker  In 2020, the Democrats in Virginia railroaded through a piece of radical climate legislation called the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA). Its goal was to reduce the Commonwealth’s carbon emissions to zero by 2045 and would achieve its ends by bulldozing large amounts of farmland and wilderness to foist the construction of […]

Virginia Senate panel votes down former Trump EPA chief Wheeler, fight not over for Youngkin Cabinet pick

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/592354-virginia-senate-panel-votes-to-pull-wheelers-name-from-nominee-list?utm_source=thehill&utm_medium=widgets&utm_campaign=es_recommended_content A key committee in Virginia’s Democratic-majority state Senate has removed former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Andrew Wheeler, GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s nominee for secretary of natural and historic resources, from a list of Cabinet nominees, signaling the legislature may reject a state Cabinet nominee for the first time in 16 years. The state Senate’s Committee […]