'Public Interest Rather than Ideology': Jones Takes Steps to Have Virginia Rejoin Climate Change Agreement

'Public interest rather than ideology': Jones takes steps to have Virginia rejoin climate change agreement

Less than a week after his inauguration, Virginia's new attorney general is taking steps to have the Commonwealth rejoin a multi-state agreement combating climate change. If successful, he would be undoing years of controversial work carried out by the previous Republican administration.

Virginia Attorney General Takes Steps to Rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

RICHMOND, Va.— Virginia’s newly elected Democratic Attorney General Jay Jones took action Thursday that creates a pathway for Virginia to rejoin the carbon market called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI. In November 2024, a judge in Floyd County Circuit Court ruled that the state must rejoin RGGI after its illegal withdrawal by then-Gov. […]

Virginia Rejoins the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

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