BACKFIRED: Spanberger's Preferred Climate Policy Caused 2.1B More Pounds of CO2 Emissions

BACKFIRED: Spanberger’s Preferred Climate Policy Caused 2.1B More Pounds Of CO2 Emissions

By Tyler O'Neil, The Daily Signal | October 31, 2025 Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger supports a climate project that actually increased the carbon emissions Virginia caused—and cost residents more money—according to the commonwealth’s Department of Energy. That project, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, “was supposed to decrease emissions, but it actually increased emissions,” Glenn Davis, director of the Virgi…

BACKFIRED: Spanberger's Preferred Climate Policy Caused 2.1B More Pounds of CO2 Emissions

Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger supports a climate project that actually increased the carbon emissions Virginia caused—and cost residents more money—according to the commonwealth’s Department of Energy. That project, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, “was supposed to decrease emissions, but it actually increased emissions,” Glenn Davis, director of the Virginia Department of Energy, told The Daily Signal in an…