The Issues

Energy Freedom

Lawsuit Challenges the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Over Regulation of Small Reactors

Virginia is not directly involved, but with our nuclear industrial base, a pending federal lawsuit over the authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is crucial for our energy future. At the end of...

Bill Stewart
May 3, 2025

‘Green’ Energy Mandates, Profit Demands Drive Dominion Price Hikes, Not Data Centers

The pending price increase for electricity from Dominion Energy Virginia is higher than the 14% jump reported by the news media which basically parroted company releases. Should all of Dominion’s...

Stephen D. Haner
April 8, 2025

Youngkin Vetoes Many Bad Energy Bills, Uses Substitutes to Flip Others to Good Bills

Wielding irony like a razor-sharp butcher’s knife, Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) has proposed a series of amendments on bills intended to promote renewable energy that basically reverse the impact and...

Stephen D. Haner
March 26, 2025

Rapid Federal Policy Changes Make Dominion’s Energy Resource Plan Moot

The expanded use of natural gas as a fuel for electricity is the key debate in Dominion Energy Virginia’s integrated resource plan pending before the State Corporation Commission. Not waiting...

Stephen D. Haner
March 11, 2025

What Did FERC Do Last Week? Only Change the Course of Energy Policy

The new chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission used the Trump Administration’s order to have agency employees report their activities as a chance to show off. Late last week...

Stephen D. Haner
March 3, 2025

Energy Customers Deserve to Know What Clean Energy Mandate is Costing Them

Until October of last year, customers of Dominion Energy Virginia could see at least some of the higher costs created by the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) detailed on their...

Stephen D. Haner
February 26, 2025

Doubling Down on Virginia’s Terrible Energy Policies

The Questions Not Asked: What Does This Cost? Will Electricity be More Reliable? The Virginia General Assembly has approved a long list of bills to double down on its previous...

Stephen D. Haner
February 21, 2025

Trump Official Asked to Stop Dominion Wind Construction: Why the Thomas Jefferson Institute Didn’t Join the Request 

Citizens and groups who opposed the push to develop offshore wind under former President Joe Biden have now asked President Donald Trump to rescind even the wind projects already under...

Stephen D. Haner
February 12, 2025

Making the Virginia Clean Economy Act More Expansive, Expensive and Onerous

The 2024 General Assembly ended with a promise from its majority Democrats to review and perhaps revise the 2020 Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA), which mandates the end of hydrocarbon...

Stephen D. Haner
February 3, 2025

Jefferson Forum concentrates on policies that affect everyday life in Virginia

Economic Freedom

Lower taxes and fewer regulations

Education Freedom

More choices for Virginia families

Energy Freedom

Reliable, affordable energy

Worker Freedom

Protecting Virginia’s right-to-work tradition

These are the building blocks of a more competitive and prosperous Virginia.