While Virginia undergoes a clean energy transition, we must address the inequalities baked into our current energy system by improving protections for households from utility disconnections, ensuring public participation in decision-making about the source of power and its cost to consumers, and enable our energy regulators to manage a clean energy transition that is both effective at combating climate change and affordable to residents.

Narissa Turner

REFORMING ELECTRIC UTILITY REGULATION FOR AN AFFORDABLE CLEAN ENERGY TRANSITION
ENSURING ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL SERVICES

• Fund key water quality programs at levels consistent with achieving the goals of the Watershed Implementation Plan (see chapter Meeting Our Chesapeake Bay Clean-Up Goals, p. 1).
• Fund land conservation programs (see Healthy, Resilient Communities and Landscapes, p. 88).
• Increase funding for key state environmental agencies to levels adequate with programmatic needs, including programs to address resiliency and climate change needs.
• Fund and ensure rapid and thorough integration of environmental justice mandates. See additional recommendations in Working Towards Environmental Justice (p. 118).
• Ensure Virginia’s natural resources programs are adequately and reliably funded going forward by adopting dedicated funding mechanisms, such as application of the full statewide recordation fee revenue (see Exploring Dedicated Funding for Conservation, p. 94).

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