Joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative was a matter of law and, as a judge ruled this week, no governor has the ...

A circuit court judge ruled that Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s removal of the state from a carbon cap-and-trade program, ...

Environmentalists and trade groups breathed a sigh of relief, while the governor promised to appeal the ruling.

The Circuit Court of Floyd County ruled that the Youngkin administration acted unlawfully in its decision to withdraw ...

Youngkin called the fee a “hidden tax” when he proposed a regulation in fall 2022 to repeal the existing regulation requiring Virginia’s participation in RGGI. The State Air Pollution ...

The decision is a blow to Virginia’s Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who initiated efforts to withdraw from the carbon ...

Eleven states, from Maryland north to Maine, are currently part of RGGI, which requires electricity producers to buy allowances for the emissions they produce. Virginia joined the program in 2021, but ...

When Gov. Glenn Youngkin took office in 2022, ending participation in RGGI was high on his “Day One” to-do list, arguing that participation amounted to a “regressive tax” on Virginians.

Virginia regulators exceeded their authority when voting to leave the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the judge's ruling ...

A Virginia court ruled Wednesday that Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R) administration cannot withdraw from an interstate carbon ...