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Dominion Energy Appears to Be Circulating an Alternative to the Virginia Clean Economy Act…and It Doesn’t Look Good
This Blue Virginia article discusses Dominion Energy’s alternatives to the Virginia Clean Economy Act. It doesn’t look good, as it continues Dominion’s pursuit of its own interests against its captive customers.
The following bill was sent to me by a source, who said this is “Dominion’s alternative to the Virginia Clean […]
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Opinion: Pipelines and environmental justice
This NY Times opinion piece, by Jeff Gleason, an attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center, discusses pipelines and environmental justice.
In the years following the Civil War, freedmen and freedwomen founded a community close to the Virginia plantations where they had been enslaved. The settlers of Union […]
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Report: “The Dominion Scam: How a Utility Monopoly Overcharged Virginians $2 Billion”
Clean Virginia is out with a new report – “The Dominion Scam: How a Utility Monopoly Overcharged Virginians $2 Billion (And Got Away with It)”. The team spent months analyzing Dominion’s exhorbitant overcharges, measly customer refunds, manufactured “crises,” and bullish lobbying since 2007 in an effort to warn legislators about the […]
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Natural gas development is speeding up in Virginia.
This Virginia Mercury article discusses how natural gas development is speeding up in Virginia. Legislators will have to square that with state climate goals.
This September, Gov. Ralph Northam took the stage at the inaugural Virginia Clean Energy Summit to announce he was committing the state to a carbon-free grid […]
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New Bills Challenge Scope of Dominion’s Power
This NPR article discusses how new legislation is challenging Dominion Energy’s power in the Virginia legislature.
For years, Dominion Energy has been one of the most powerful business interests in Virginia’s legislature.
But a handful of bills seek to challenge the energy monopoly’s reign in a newly-Democratic General Assembly whose […]
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Virginia’s ‘cleanest-burning coal plant’ racks up third consent order for air pollution violations
This Virginia Mercury article discusses the third consent order for air pollution violations racked up by Dominion Energy’s supposed ‘cleanest-burning coal plant’. A Southwestern Virginia power plant praised by Dominion Energy as “one of the cleanest-burning coal plants in the country” has agreed to consent orders for violating state […]
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Overpowered: In Virginia, Dominion faces challenges to its reign
This article discusses how Dominion Energy is facing challenges to its reign in Virginia.
This is the third of a five-part series exploring oversupply in the power sector and the factors driving a glut of natural gas-fired power plants.
When Dominion Energy Virginia decided in 2012 to […]
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Dominion will seek regulated recovery of $8B in offshore wind investment
This article discusses how Dominion Energy will seek regulated recovery of $8B in offshore wind investment.
Dominion Energy management on Friday assured investors that the company will be able to build and receive cost recovery for its planned massive offshore wind project in Virginia.
Dominion Energy subsidiary Dominion Energy Virginia in September […]
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Warning Letters to Dominion for the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley Pipelines
This warning letter was issued to Dominion Energy because of unsafe practices in laying pipelines for both the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley Pipelines. It was issued by Robert Burrough, Director, Eastern Region, of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. It is another example of the vendors not […]
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EDITORIAL: Is Atlantic Coast Pipeline still a viable project?
This editorial, written by the Lynchburg News & Advance, and posted to the Free Lance-Star. discusses the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and Dominion Energy.
This is an excellent piece. There is an obvious flaw in the article’s title however. The word “still” implies it was once needed. It has only been […]
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