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July 1, 2021 This rule has been transformed completely, with a much higher price tag, said Elizabeth Williamson, an attorney with Williams Mullen representing the Virginia Manufacturers Association, at a hearing before Judge Beverly Snukals in Richmond Circuit Court Wednesday morning.
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The VMA in its lawsuit has argued that the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality failed to follow correct procedure in revising its carbon trading regulation, that the new regulation is vague and that it imposes an illegal carbon tax on ratepayers.
Virginia s Office of the Attorney General, however, says that DEQ simply followed clear directives set by the General Assembly in a 2020 law authorizing the state to join a carbon market, and that the regulation is neither vague nor an illegal tax.
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The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is ignoring significant environmental, and public health threats to the residents of Chatham, Virginia by issuing a draft permit approval for the Lambert compressor station. To make matters worse, citizen comments at the upcoming July 7th hearing before the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board must now be made in person, and not virtually.
DEQ has issued the draft permit approval without adequate consideration of a number of important issues.
Significant negative health impacts from compressor station discharges are well documented.
Nevertheless, there has been no public health assessment in the Chatham community, despite over 50 years of ongoing pollutant discharges from nearby Transco compressor stations. Citizens in this environmental justice community could already be experiencing significant negative health impacts. Nevertheless, DEQ is burdening them with more pollution from Lambert without c
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Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality is getting more time to assess the impact of the 303-mile, 42-inch-wide pipeline on hundreds of tiny streams and waterways. This week the Army Corps of Engineers granted an extension until spring of next year.
Tom Cormons is with the advocacy group Appalachian Voices.
“We take the extension to be a real signal that protecting water quality is a priority for the federal and state regulators here, Cormons says. And, it really needs to be if you look at the hundreds of violations that the Mountain Valley Pipeline has already accrued over the years.”