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DEQ statement on ruling upholding Virginia cap-and-trade program
Published Monday, Jul. 19, 2021, 7:35 pm
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Last week, the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond ruled in favor of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, rejecting the Virginia Manufacturers Association’s challenge to the regulations enabling Virginia’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
“The Court held that DEQ did exactly what the General Assembly told it to do in establishing our carbon trading program,” said DEQ Director David Paylor.
BY PATRICK WILSON
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Some people in Virginia are preparing to fight a plan to put a natural gas pipeline through their properties that would serve a yet-to-be-built power plant in Charles City County.
While Charles City County has approved the plant, property owners and county government leaders along the pipeline path said they have no information yet about the actual route of the pipeline. Environmental groups say the line would serve a plant that is not needed for Virginia s electricity needs. The natural gas industry has written our law in Virginia, and nationally, to a very great extent, said Lynn Peace Wilson of Henrico County, who received a letter from the pipeline company about her property across the Chickahominy River in New Kent County. They have written themselves protections that make it very difficult for anyone to question what they are doing.â
PATRICK WILSON
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Some people in central Virginia are preparing to fight a plan to put a natural gas pipeline through their properties that would serve a yet-to-be-built power plant in Charles City County.
While Charles City County has approved the plant, property owners and county government leaders along the pipeline path said they have no information yet about the actual route of the pipeline. Environmental groups say the line would serve a plant that is not needed for Virginiaâs electricity needs.
âThe natural gas industry has written our law in Virginia, and nationally, to a very great extent,â said Lynn Peace Wilson of Henrico County, who received a letter from the pipeline company about her property across the Chickahominy River in New Kent County. âThey have written themselves protections that make it very difficult for anyone to question what they are doing.â
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