Supporters of the Virginia Energy Reliability Alliance were out in force at an air permit hearing last month for the utility’s controversial natural gas “peaker” plant in Chesterfield County. Dominion Energy, Virginia’s largest utility, says it’s been “transparent” with regard to its support for the group.

By Charles Paullin

CHESTER, Va.—A crowd packed a meeting room at the SpringHill Suites here in September for a public hearing on an air permit for a controversial “peaker” plant that Dominion Energy has long been lobbying to build to enhance grid reliability.

A Pro-Dominion Grassroots Group Has Financial Ties—to Dominion

Indigenous and community leaders see the upcoming U.N. climate talks in the heart of the Amazon Basin as an unprecedented opportunity to infuse global climate ambitions with justice and inclusiveness.

By Liza Gross

Leaders of Indigenous, Afro-descendant and disenfranchised groups living in rural and forested regions around the world see the upcoming United Nations climate summit in Belém, Brazil, as a pivotal moment.

Will COP30 Finally Prioritize Indigenous Voices?

Rising ocean temperatures, heatwaves and dwindling prey are forcing marine mammals into new and more dangerous waters, scientists warn.

By Teresa Tomassoni

For millennia, some of the world’s largest filter-feeding whales, including humpbacks, fin whales and blue whales, have undertaken some of the longest migrations on earth to travel between their warm breeding grounds in the tropics to nutrient-rich feeding destinations in the poles each year.

Whale and Dolphin Migrations are Being Disrupted by Climate Change