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On his first day in office, Gov. Glenn Youngkin ordered state regulators to reassess Virginia’s involvement in a regional cap-and-trade market for carbon emissions and begin the process of leaving the program.

In Virginia, cabinet nominees are rarely blocked. But the Republican governor-elect’s choice of Andrew Wheeler to be natural resources secretary has alarmed Democrats.

Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin intends to remove the Southern state from a regional emissions trading program designed to reduce carbon pollution.