Taxonomy Archives: Virginia
Forest agency to re-start planning for the George Washington National Forest
As the U.S. Forest Service re-starts its process to update the long-range plan for the 1.1 million acre George Washington National Forest in western Virginia, a broad coalition of citizen groups calle...
South has much at stake as U.S. Senate begins historic debate on climate change legislation
The U.S. Senate today began much-anticipated debate on the Climate Change Security Act of 2008, also known as the Warner-Lieberman bill. The U.S. has lagged well behind other industrial nations in add...
Clean energy advocates petition Dominion Power to call off its dirty coal plant, invest in clean energy
Citizens from Wise County, where Dominion Power proposes building a controversial coal-fired power plant, and from across Virginia rallied in Richmond today to urge the company to drop the project and...
DOE pushes federal condemnation for coal by wire
Yesterday, six regional and national environmental and historic preservation organizations and one local government in Virginia filed a petition for judicial review of the Department of Energy's final...
Environmental coalition exposes illegal mercury limits in DEQ permit for Wise County coal plant
A preliminary mercury pollution permit proposed for Dominion Power's coal-fired power plant in Wise County contains a built-in "out clause," drafted by the company, that would allow it to routinely ex...
Mercury pollution from proposed power plant in Wise County would be worse than other Dominion plants
As the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality prepares for a public hearing this Thursday in Wise County on Dominion’s controversial plans to build a coal-fired power plant there, opponents are ...
Virginia State Corporation Commission rules on Dominion’s proposed coal-fired power plant in Wise County
On July 13, 2007, Dominion Power applied to the State Corporation Commission for approval of a coal-fired power plant in Wise County it promised would be "carbon capture compatible."
Dominion playing shell game with pollution impacts of Wise Co. coal plant
Dominion Power is playing fast and loose with projections about air pollution impacts of its proposed coal-fired power plant in Wise County, a coalition of groups said today in a filing with the Depar...
Dominion concedes its planned coal-fired power plant in Wise County won’t capture greenhouse gases
In a motion to the State Corporation Commission made earlier this week, Dominion Virginia concedes that its proposed 585-megawatt power plant in Wise County is not “carbon-capture compatible.”
EPA loses federal court battle over mercury
The Environmental Protection agency must require power plants, the leading source of mercury pollution in the U.S, to better control their emissions of the dangerous toxin, a federal court ruled today...