People-first climate policy on the clock; dog-first policy off the clock.
Richmond, VA (up on the hill)
Joined May 2015
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Endless data center growth in Va is legit daunting, if it swamps our climate & our energy system.
But folks can take a chill-pill:
If Big Tech walks the walk on their climate commitments & the @VAStateCorpComm remains a steady hand, we can do this right.
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The latest "legal opinion" of @GovernorVa & @JasonMiyaresVA is wobblier than an intoxicated bowling pin.
So let's just call this what it is: Youngkin once again sacrificing a safer climate by contorting the law for big polluters.
So much for law & order!
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Richmond climate leaders @ssurovell shouldn’t take their eye off the ball and follow Youngkin over the cliff on “small nuclear.”
Why? Just google:
"NuScale billions lost"
“North Anna 3 billions lost”
“VC Summers billions lost”
“Vogtle billions lost”
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What good governance looks like:
Legislative leaders @ssurovell @DonScott757 neatly tie this up in less than 2 weeks, after 2 years of nihilistic obstruction.
Back to its full strength, the SCC can now ensure Va's clean energy economy goes into overdrive
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Good grief
@GlennYoungkin just asked taxpayers to pay $100ml for polluters’ climate damage, yet the last quarterly RGGI auction alone delivered the same amount, except paid for by the very polluters responsible for worsening our flooding.
Get a clue bud!
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Big polluters coughed up another $70+mil in quarterly RGGI payments, to help pay for their climate damage to Virginia.
Yet, as extreme weather damage piles up, @GlennYoungkin 's anti-RGGI message to Virginians?
"Drop dead. I stand with the polluters."
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Now that @GlennYoungkin has taken the plunge w/his reckless stunt attacking VA's popular RGGI law, he's about to get a civics lesson in court: the legislature makes law, the governor executes them.
His attack is a stress test on democracy, but democracy (& the climate) will win.
Sneering at every climate law, while proposing zero solutions of his own, @GlennYoungkin's destructive, cynical politics on climate change rightly meet their demise in Richmond, thanks to champions in the Senate @SenMMAson looking out for all Virginians.
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Weird: @glennyoungkin’s budget would make taxpayers pay for VA’s exorbitant flooding & energy costs.
Yet in Q4 alone, under VA’s RGGI law, big polluters just paid up another $70+ million, to do exactly that.
Youngkin's RGGI attack is just a big misfire.
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Va's fundign allotment from the latest RGGI cap-and-invest auction ($75mil) is another solid down payment for @GovernorVA's admin. to deliver on his commitment to tackle Va's high electric rates & rising floodwaters.
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Even as Va floodwaters rise, @GovernorVA forgets the word "govern" is in governor:
By burying his doomed RGGI attack under admin busywork, he's just buying himself more time to showboat to the donor class.
C'mon gov, let's dial back the cynical ambition.
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This decision looks good on you, @VAStateCorpComm!
@DominionEnergy's energy efficiency upgrades in our homes & businesses is just the carbon-zapping investment Virginia needs much more of, for our affordable transition to zero-carbon-emissions-by-2045.
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Good news for coping with sky-high gas prices and sky-high temps => climate-friendly EV-chargers are now easier to get, if you're a @DominionEnergy customer in VA.
My Chevrolet EV slashed my fuel costs AND pollution, by more than half.
Get charged up!
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: @GovernorVA needs to stop playing games with our lives.
RGGI delivers community flood protection funding all across Virginia and he attacks it? What an empty vest!
Drag him @NRDC!
In appointing 4 polluter allies to the Air Pollution Control Board, Youngkin is the stooge of shadow-secretary Wheeler: rather than continue drifting into nihilism, Youngkin should pause & examine Wheeler's track record up in DC. This won't end well, Gov.
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Inflation is walloping @Dominionenergy ratepayers, by up to $24 a month - on top of rates that are among the very highest in the South.
All just to cover Dominion's soaring gas bill.
Time for D to get serious about energy efficiency.#actionsspeaklouder
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Virginians ♥️ RGGI by wide margins; it cut pollution while economy grew to pre-cov heights; it funds energy independence & protection against sea-level rise.
Whipping folks into a redmeat lather over that just doesn't work @GlennYoungkin: let's move on.
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Wide open bipartisan pathway for @glennyoungkin to lower costs-of-living, by addressing Va's high electric rates (eg boost energy efficiency ; end monopoly handouts).
Defunding RGGI investment to tackle sea-level rise & energy costs is just a distraction.
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Equitable climate action in Virginia is on tap this Energy Efficiency Day, with a chance for the G.A.'s energy leaders, like @SenLSpruill @delegateaird to deliver lower bills & cleaner indoor air to those families who need it most.
#2022sessionforthewin
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Big THANK YOU to @VaSenateDems climate leaders like @SenDaveMarsden, working hard to ensure 2021's #CleanCarsVirginia is not only Va's biggest climate advance ever, but also this session's biggest win on delivering cleaner air with tech-savvy cars.
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