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Environmental News For The Week Ending 20December 2019 This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at GEI (but can be posted at other times). Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately: Some of the COVID-19 graphics presented in the above articles have been updated below. Also, mentioned in two articles near the ...

Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center (VCHEC), one of the newest in U.S., risks closure due to market forces December 16, 2020 (IEEFA)—Retiring the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center (VCHEC) will bring unnecessarily abrupt economic hardship to Wise County if state and local officials do not begin to plan now for a transition, concludes a report published today by the Institute for Energy Economic and Financial Analysis. The 8-year-old coal-fired power plant, owned by Dominion Energy through its subsidiary Virginia Electric & Power Co., is at risk of closure as market and policy forces continue...

Advertisement Check out the following press release from Appalachian Voices, on the new report, Virginia Coal Plant’s Future Isn’t Bright: Preparation for Transition Should Commence Now. Note that some of us (raises hand, lol) fought hard against this absurd power plant back when it was proposed, when for some really bad reasons, it was rammed through by the Kaine administration. Yes, this was one of three huge f’ups by the Kaine administration, the other two being the repeal of the estate tax and the “no-bid” contract for Bechtel on the Silver Line (note: there could be a fo...