Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Environmental Quality
 
Board
Air Pollution Control Board
 
Guidance Document Change: DEQ Guidance Memo APG-578 addresses the use of emergency generators in the case of “sudden and reasonably unforeseeable events” as the result of a planned electric outage.
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11/20/25  3:13 pm
Commenter: Sisi Gallagher

Just say no to diesel generators
 

I am writing to urge the DEQ to refrain from broadening the current allowance for diesel generators.  Planned outages and grid stress should be anticipated and planned for as investments in data centers are made, and the plan should not be to impose undue heath risks on the community by relying on dirty diesel generators.  

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