Virginia is bailing on a carbon cap-and-invest program. Activists say that might be illegal.

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By kmyersAug 28, 2023, 8:00 am140 pts
After a blazingly hot stretch of summer in early July, 2022, the skies broke open over Buchanan County, Virginia. Floodwaters damaged almost 100 homes and destroyed miles of road in the rural, overwhelmingly low-income mountain towns that dot the region. In the wake of the devastation, local officials spent…

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