Tag: Energy Efficiency
The Energy Bill List Gets Longer. How Do You Choose What...
by Ivy Main, cross-posted from Power for the People VA
The 2021 General Session is in full swing, with bills being heard at all hours...
If Virginia’s Serious About a Zero-Carbon Future, We *Must* Significantly Improve...
by Sharon Shutler, co-chair of Climate & Clean Energy Working Group, Virginia Grassroots Coalition
In 2020, the General Assembly committed Virginia to a zero-carbon future. ...
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy Explains Why Decoupling Electric Utilities,...
The following blog post, by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), gets at something I've been harping on for years - namely,...
Climate Action Begins at Home. (Literally. With Houses.)
by Ivy Main, cross posted from Power for the People VA
You remember the story of the Three Little Pigs. First the little pigs built...
New Studies Make Clear Why Virginia Can – and Should –...
With the climate crisis raging, it's indisputable that we need to go all-in on clean energy (wind, solar, energy efficienty) and ditch fossil fuels...
Virginia Groups Highlight Insufficiency of VCEA, Call for Stronger Climate Legislation...
I'm posting the following press release from Food & Water Action, as well as a letter from "over 20" environmental and progressive groups, not...
Gov. Northam Signs Virginia Clean Economy Act, Commits State to Move...
See below for statements, from Environment Virginia and Virginia Advanced Energy Economy, on Gov. Ralph Northam's signing into law the Virginia Clean Economy Act...
Brand-New Energy Efficiency Scorecard of U.S. Utilities Ranks Dominion Near Dead...
Aside from working to corrupt Virginia's state government, bizarrely refusing to speak with the Virginia Mercury, engaging in sleazy "self-dealing," pushing a massive new...
Video: Fairfax County School Board Prioritizes Climate Action; Moves Towards Net-Zero...
The all-Democratic Fairfax County School Board, finally rid of negative value-added time-wasters like right-wing nutter Elizabeth Schultz, is busy getting good work done. See...
Virginia’s Clean Economy Act: Are Its Analytical Underpinnings Unduly Pessimistic?
by A Siegel
Last week, a broad environmental coalition and multiple Virginia state legislators coalesced for the announcement of the "Virginia Clean Economy Act" (VCEA)....