Environment & Sea Level Rise

Winterberry Solar in Gloucester County and Norge Solar near Williamsburg went online at the end of November and should power about 10,000 homes.

Virginia’s ski resorts in the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains opened later in the season than normal, but officials still expect a successful season.

Several invasive insects are killing trees and plants. But scientists are also using bugs to help combat the spread of some of these pests.

Virginia farmers who produce poultry litter for sale and brokers who transfer it must now send the state Department of Environmental Quality annual information about those transactions to better track what pollutants may be entering the Chesapeake Bay.

A collaboration between researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Vermont and Chesapeake Conservancy has determined the Chesapeake Bay watershed is rapidly losing tree cover to expanding urban and suburban development.

Virginia’s electric utility regulators told Dominion Energy Wednesday that it is no longer allowed to impose its rules for connecting smaller solar projects to the grid because it doesn’t have the authority to do so.

The Virginia Office of the Attorney General is asking a Richmond judge to throw out a lawsuit from recreational fishers that says state regulators illegally increased menhaden catch limits.

PFAS can be found in firefighting foam, nonstick cookware, private wells and public waterways.

Virginia’s Crab Management Advisory Committee recommended earlier this month that regulators consider extending Virginia’s fall crabbing season and loosening catch limits, allowing crabbers to catch more of the crustaceans.

The change would primarily affect Reedville-based Omega Protein, which uses purse seine nets to catch menhaden in the Bay before reducing the fish to meal and oil.