While temperatures have soared across the D.C. region for the last few weeks, it feels hotter in some neighborhoods than in those around them.
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Environmental Lawyers Share How Chevron Doctrine’s Overturning Impacts Virginia
Virginia Mercury
While the exact implications are unclear, attorneys with environmental organizations say the overturning could influence Virginia’s tailpipe emissions, but rules around keeping waterways clean appear to be on firmer ground.
Amid Scorching Heat, Moore’s Order Lays Foundation for Efficient, Clean Cooling
Maryland Matters
The first day of summer in Maryland came with a warning: Code Red—Extreme Heat. Fortunately, the first step toward universal clean cooling was taken when Gov. Wes Moore signed a visionary executive order ordering the Maryland Department of the Environment to develop zero-emission heating equipment standards (ZEHES) this year.
Youngkin Speaks About Energy Plan Ahead of Update in Coming Weeks
Virginia Mercury
Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Friday leaned into his All-of-the-Above energy plan that calls for continued use of natural gas, despite scientists stating human use of fossil fuels is causing climate change’s increasingly intense storms.
Research to Help Solar Farms Reduce Erosion and Runoff
The Bay Journal
Landscapes lined with solar panels don’t absorb rainwater the same way that a forest does — or shed it like a parking lot. But researchers are just beginning to understand the factors that can greatly reduce the negative impacts of utility-scale solar installations on soil and water.
National and International News
What Would a Harris Presidency Mean for the Climate?
Grist
“We must do more,” Harris said late last year at the climate summit in Dubai. “Our action collectively, or worse, our inaction, will impact billions of people for decades to come.”
Inside the Project 2025 Plan to Gut Climate Regs
E&E News
The EPA chapter of the much-vaunted Project 2025 blueprint is stocked with ideas for how political appointees could use a second Trump term to remake agency org charts, defang enforcement and disperse Washington-based staff to regional offices. But the document — spearheaded by the conservative Heritage Foundation — also catalogs tactics for relaxing regulation in ways that might reverberate beyond the next four years.
Electric Vehicles Strain the Automaker-Big Oil Alliance
Inside Climate News
In the clean car battle, the oil industry leans on friends—including Donald Trump—to keep gasoline transport alive, while carmakers steer toward an EV future.
14 Attorneys General Press FEMA to Define Heat, Wildfire Smoke As Major Disasters
Smart Cities Dive
Attorneys general from 13 states and D.C. want extreme heat and wildfire smoke to be explicitly recognized by the federal government as eligible for major disaster declarations.
In Georgia, Companies Want to Cut Emissions. Utilities are Holding Them Back.
Grist
With less than half of Georgia Power’s electricity carbon-free, businesses and governments are scrambling to meet looming clean energy targets.