Virginia will usher in a 21-member environmental justice council on Wednesday, part of a broad slate of legislation made possible when Democrats flipped the House and Senate in November.
The package of environmental bills taking effect also includes one that puts Virginia in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, joining a coalition of Northeast states trying to curb carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector.
The Democrats’ winning of majorities in both the House of Delegates and the Senate gave them control of both houses and the governor’s mansion in Virginia for the first time since 1994.
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