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Democratic leadership signals willingness to reexamine Virginia Clean Economy Act

House Speaker Don Scott listens to presentations at the May meeting of the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation. (Credit: Brad Kutner / Radio IQ)

Passed during a Democratic trifecta in 2020, the Virginia Clean Economy Act was viewed as a monumental step toward modernizing the state’s dirty power generation. But in the face of President Donald Trump’s alternative energy funding cuts and data center-fueled power demand, the most powerful Democrats in Virginia’s legislature appear open to reviewing the law. Brad Kutner has more. 

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