West Virginia has been named the least environmentally sustainable state in the U.S., according to a recent report by LendingTree that evaluated states on five major environmental metrics. The study placed West Virginia at the bottom due to significant challenges, including high carbon dioxide emissions, low renewable energy use, and limited electric vehicle (EV) adoption.
Solar panel installers are up before dawn, loading pallets into trucks at a warehouse in Huntington, West Virginia. Today’s job sites include a backyard in the hills south of the city and the roof of a homeless shelter.
This scene was hard to imagine 15 years ago, when mines employed almost twice as many people in West Virginia as they do now, and it’s partly thanks to the Biden administration’s climate law.
